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Workflow demo
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CAREER PROJECT · Advanced · 2 weekends
AWS Step Functions Workflow
Orchestrate a multi-step serverless workflow with retries, branching, failure handling and observable execution history.
Step FunctionsLambdaEventBridgeRetriesWorkflow orchestration
DEFINITION OF DONE
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State diagram
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Failure/retry tests
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Execution logs
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Cost notes
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RESUME / PORTFOLIO FRAMING
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Orchestrated a resilient AWS serverless workflow with Step Functions, retries, branching and observable failure handling.
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STRETCH GOALS
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Human approval step
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Distributed Map
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Dead-letter recovery
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