--- title: AWS Step Functions Reviews meta\_title: 'AWS Step Functions Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 35 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AWS Step Functions works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.2 review\_count: 35 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Rapid Application Development (RAD) url: https://www.g2.com/categories/rapid-application-development-rad --- # AWS Step Functions Reviews & Product Details AWS Step Functions makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows. 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CF Caleb F. Data & IA Specialist Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/10/2026 "Visual and traceable orchestration for complex flows in AWS" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS Step Functions? What I like most about AWS Step Functions is that it allows you to model complex workflows visually and in a controlled manner, without having to handle all the orchestration logic manually in code. It is especially useful for coordinating processes between various AWS services, such as Lambda, Glue, EventBridge, and other components of the ecosystem. I also greatly value the traceability of executions, error handling, retries, and the ability to define more robust and maintainable flows. For batch processes, automations, and data pipelines, it provides a lot of order and operational visibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Step Functions? What I like the least is that, although the visual design helps a lot, the flows can become difficult to maintain when they grow significantly in complexity. In large scenarios, the definition in JSON can become extensive and less convenient to manage. There is also an initial learning curve to fully understand states, transitions, error handling, and service limits. Additionally, when a workflow depends on several external services or permission configurations, troubleshooting can take time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Step Functions solving and how is that benefiting you? AWS Step Functions helps solve the problem of coordinating distributed processes across multiple services without having to manually implement all the control logic, retries, dependencies, and failure handling. In my case, it is useful for automating sequential or conditional executions within data pipelines and operational processes in AWS. The main benefit is that it improves the visibility of the flow, reduces the complexity of custom code, facilitates the monitoring of executions, and makes the automation of processes involving multiple stages more maintainable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: OrganicAI Translated ![Vishwa R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vishwa R.") VR Vishwa R. Senior Associate Platform Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/12/2026 "AWS Step Functions Makes Cascading Lambda Workflows Easy" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS Step Functions? I would say step function is best to implement cascading lambdas, in my project we had requiremnt of having a cascading execution of code, where we broke down each functionality into lambdas and then used amazon's step function to execute it in a flow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Step Functions? The complexity is sometime more related to yaml/json. But now a days due to AI and co-pilot that is also easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Step Functions solving and how is that benefiting you? As mentioned earlier our software has components which could be implemented using lambdas, we broke our execution into small small lambdas and then used step function to create a flow of execution, where output of one lambda could server as input to another. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Debarshi M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Debarshi M.") DM Debarshi M. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/25/2023 "AWS Step Function Review" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS Step Functions? I liked how AWS Step Functions have a detailed execution flow for each of my other AWS resources., also I liked the feature of how without the help of lambda I can quickly call Dynamodb and do the operation, this helps in reducing resources and saving some bucks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Step Functions? So far not but earlier sometimes put a little more effort into writing step definitions thanks to WorkFlow Studio, the features to drag and drop AWS resources are pretty easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Step Functions solving and how is that benefiting you? It's given me a detailed execution flow, and this making able to handle errors quite easily. Also, it gives orchestration features for my lambda functions, we all know lambda can execute 15mins max, I use step functions and with the help of Parallel and Map state flow, I can run a bunch of lambda for my use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mahak K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mahak K.") MK Mahak K. Assistant System Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/9/2023 "Orchestrating tool: Step Function" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS Step Functions? It is easy to create an ETL flow in this service. It provides a feature to create workflow visually; in the back-end, it makes the whole JSON according to the visually prepared flow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Step Functions? The one of states provided in creating the flow is parallel state in which we can run multiple states simultaneously. But the drawback of this state is that if one of the entities fail, all the other entities included are aborted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Step Functions solving and how is that benefiting you? Our team solely works on ETL jobs to meet customer requirements, initially we used triggers to run the desired glue jobs and lambda functions, but with step functions, it got easy to monitor the whole flow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ramachandra S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ramachandra S.") RS Ramachandra S. Senior Devops Enginer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/7/2022 "Best in business to run mutliple jobs/lambdas at once" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS Step Functions? The way we can utilize the state machines to reduce the load on lambda functions. By creating a proper flow between state machines we can handle multiple lambas at once and achieve our goal efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Step Functions? Only thing is we need to learn the state language which i think is new and not useful anywhere other than here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Step Functions solving and how is that benefiting you? I have used it for a scenario where i had to process large sets of data which was not handled by lambda due to its timeout limit, using step functions the transitions between lambdas helped to parallelize the load and handle the flow properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/14/2022 "A visual workflow design tool on cloud by AWS" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS Step Functions? It's a low code workflow tool by AWS; we used the Step function to orchestrate the business process, which should run on the AWS cloud when a file is uploaded to S3 storage. We liked it as of use; you can have many connectors or AWS lambda functions as input/output. The output of a step can be quickly sent to another one. 100's of Connectors can be easily added via drag n drop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Step Functions? To be more proficient in the AWS step function, you should have a good command of the AWS Services & AWS ecosystem, so there is some learning curve involved for a novice developer. No offline/on-prem IDE's available to develop & deploy the AWS Step functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Step Functions solving and how is that benefiting you? We had to run a flow on the AWS cloud when a file was uploaded on the AWS S3 storage so we created an AWS Step Function to orchestrate the flow; we integrated the input/output of AWS Lambda functions using Step Functions. We liked it's features - re-try logic, Visual appearance of the flow, parallel execution of steps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/8/2022 "AWS Step Functions" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS Step Functions? The best thing about step functions is it allows me to focus on building business logic and less time on integration code as it takes care of all internal application components. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Step Functions? There are few limits on AWS Step functions as AWS manages them. It only allows to move of data of 256KB through workflows, and 90 days of execution history is retained, which is much less compared to its competitor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Step Functions solving and how is that benefiting you? AWS Step functions solve the problem of managing and creating workflows for data engineering projects, and the seamless integration it provides with other AWS services is beneficial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Asad F.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Asad F.") AF Asad F. Cloud Solutions Architect Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/22/2020 "AWS Step Function helped me clone and filter live db to reporting db every hour" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS Step Functions? The ability to run multiple AWS functions into a series of steps or flow so the step functions can make a sort of like a mini-application. I used it to replica live database into the analytics database for an hourly update of analytics database and it was really easy to write a couple of lambda functions each of which did a different step job and then using step functions to align them to run in a flow and notify me in case of any failure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Step Functions? The step functions console could be more user friendly to include step by step guide of creating step-functions rapidly. That would help me create and use a new step function every day instead of taking time and motivation to create a step function due to the efforts required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS Step Functions: Start with the sample step function provided by AWS Step functions console to modify it and create your own by tweaking it according to your desire. this will save you a lot of time and effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Step Functions solving and how is that benefiting you? I needed to clone a production database to an analytics database with a different instance type, filter confidential information out of it, changing its password (since it was a prod clone it would have a prod password so I used analytics DB password) and renamed it and then updating route53 records to update the CNAME value to analytics DB endpoint. Thus step-functions helped me write different lambda functions and performed these steps in a series of steps with wait times which could be incorporated like creating a DB took 3-7 mins so I incorporated wait time of 8-10 mins to be safe etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/5/2020 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Boon Khai L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Boon Khai L.") BL Boon Khai L. Technical Co-founder Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/8/2020 "Structured way of sequencing and coordinating serverless services" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS Step Functions? Our workflow requires a lot of tasks to be executed sequentially, and AWS Step Function provides a very structural and logical way for us to coordinate our tasks. On top of that, the way you can integrate some logic into Step Function process makes it easy to execute parallel, conditional and loop tasks if required. AWS Step Function also works nicely with other AWS services such as AWS Lambda, and integrated nicely with IAM role in controlling the permission. Another positive note is that the logical diagram after the Step Function has been created provides a good visual feedback, and it allows us to monitor success / failure of a certain step much easily compare to monitoring from the logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Step Functions? One thing I dislike, or I hope it will be part of the future offering is the ability to retry the Step Function at any selected task / step and continue from there. As of now we can create this behavior by having a conditional check at the beginning of the Step Function process, hope that this can be part of the feature in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Step Functions solving and how is that benefiting you? We are analyzing video from multiple aspects including visual, audio and text. AWS Step Function allows to create multiple tasks, from transcoding the video into certain format to calling multiple APIs in parallel to process the video and ends with a notification to SNS, put into SQS queue or another Lambda Function. We separated these individual tasks logic out as a serverless Lambda function as its own, which is easier for us to test and add additional logic / features if needed. With AWS Step Function, we can coordinate these Lambda function through sequential and parallel steps, and it allows us to monitor for failure in any given steps in a visual way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Accounting](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Accounting") AA Verified User in Accounting Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/24/2020 "An easy-to-user service from AWS that streamlines your application workflow" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS Step Functions? AWS Step Functions is very easy to set up, it comes with detailed code samples, and integrates very well with Lambda functions. The AWS environment is becoming something akin to an operating system for me; there are various services that you tie together, and voilà, you have an entire application. AWS Step Functions can be used as a glue to tie multiple services together. You are only limited by your imagination and use cases. The cost of using AWS Step Functions is negligible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Step Functions? I would like to see AWS Step Functions integrate with more AWS services. Also, if CloudWatch log subscriptions could be sent to AWS Step Functions, that could simplify workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS Step Functions: Start small with a proof-of-concept project and learn its capabilities. Expand the scope of the project as you get more comfortable with the technology. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Step Functions solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using AWS Step Functions as an orchestrator for multiple Lambda functions. This setup works well and there is no infrastructure to maintain. 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