Monitoring Step Functions using CloudWatch alarms
When you have a step-by-step workflow and you need to coordinate it using a service, then AWS Step Functions is the service for that. Step Functions makes it easy for non-engineers to be able to set up a step-by-step workflow using a state machine. Say, for example, you want to create a flow that receives customer information, sifts through the data and collects emails, and sends feedback to the customer based on information found in the biodata. Let's assume we want to find out whether a customer's age is eligible for the service. This is a flow that has four stages:
- Collect customer/user information.
- Get the email from the customer data.
- Check for information about the age of the customer to see whether it is over the eligible age.
- Send back an email notifying the customer of whether they are eligible or not.
This is a step-by-step workflow of being able to filter those who are eligible for a...
