AWS Step Functions Workflow Examples You Can Run Locally

Outage Management Pipeline

End-to-end network outage management pipeline. Validates the outage report, diagnoses the root cause across affected network segments, assesses the impact radius and number of affected subscribers, dispatches field technicians, applies network rerouting to restore partial service, executes full service restoration, and generates the incident report for SLA tracking.

Outage Recovery

Handles end-to-end outage recovery for a service address. Validates the outage report, enforces a cooling-off Wait for grid stabilization, runs concurrent meter-status and anomaly checks in a Parallel state, then restores service and notifies the customer or fails with a structured error.

Payment Retry Workflow

Processes subscription payments and queues failed payments to an SQS dead-letter queue for async retry. Sends a confirmation event to SQS on success.

Payment Settlement Pipeline

End-to-end payment settlement pipeline covering field validation, fraud detection, payment rail authorization, and ledger settlement. Publishes EventBridge events at each major milestone — fraud detected, payment authorized, and settlement complete.

Player Onboarding Pipeline

This workflow handles the complete new player onboarding journey. It validates the incoming account registration, assigns a personalised tutorial track based on platform and experience level, generates a dynamic AI welcome message using Amazon Bedrock, then waits for tutorial completion before awarding the starter item pack and marking the player as fully onboarded.

Rag Ingestion Pipeline

End-to-end RAG knowledge base ingestion pipeline covering document intake, text extraction and chunking, embedding generation, vector store indexing, retrieval quality validation, catalog update, and stakeholder notification.

Recall Escalation

This workflow handles escalation of a recall case where an initial inspection or parts order has failed. It re-validates the recall, enforces a brief processing Wait, then re-runs owner notification and parts ordering in parallel before re-scheduling inspection or closing the case with an escalation flag.

Subscription Cancellation

Handles subscription cancellation by queuing lifecycle and billing-stop events to SQS, with an optional waitForTaskToken async billing confirmation before final billing processing.

Subscription Onboarding

Orchestrates full tenant onboarding — validation, account creation, billing setup, resource provisioning, activation, and SQS welcome notification.

Tournament Bracket Processing

This workflow processes a round of tournament match results concurrently using a Map state. Each match result is independently validated and recorded, bracket standings are updated, and the workflow determines whether the tournament round is complete. On round completion, Amazon Bedrock generates a highlight recap, and prizes or advancement tokens are distributed to qualifying players.

Transaction Reversal

This workflow handles the end-to-end reversal of a previously processed credit card transaction. It validates reversal eligibility, enforces a short cooling-off Wait period to allow in-flight settlements to complete, then runs concurrent fraud and balance checks using a Parallel state before restoring funds or failing the reversal with a structured error.

Vehicle Order Pipeline

Models a complete end-to-end vehicle order fulfillment pipeline using AWS Step Functions. It validates the incoming order, checks dealer inventory, runs a customer credit check, schedules production or dealer allocation, arranges delivery logistics, and notifies the customer on confirmation.