G2

Atharva P.

Cloud BI Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/25/2026

"Visual, Serverless Orchestration That Simplifies Complex AWS Workflows"

4/5

What do you like best about AWS Step Functions?

What I like best about AWS Step Functions is how easily it orchestrates complex workflows across AWS services with a visual, serverless approach. It simplifies coordination between multiple services while improving visibility into workflow execution and failures. I also appreciate the visual workflow management and the built-in retry and error-handling capabilities, which make complex orchestration easier to understand, maintain, and monitor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Step Functions?

Complex state machine definitions can become hard to manage as workflows grow larger. Debugging deeply nested workflows can also be challenging, and handling more advanced error scenarios may take additional effort and careful attention. 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 address orchestration and workflow coordination challenges in distributed applications and serverless architectures.

In our case, we use it to coordinate ETL workflows, automate multi-step processing pipelines, and handle retries and errors across services. As a result, we’ve been able to reduce the amount of manual orchestration logic we maintain and improve overall workflow reliability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.