9 engineers on Hacker News describe using AWS Step Functions first-hand: 3 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“we use lambda/sfn/other services to process hundreds of millions of pages of data annually and it scales beautifully”
endorse · production · holler · 2026-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“before we switched to serverless cloud step function lambda craziness”
regret · production · junon · 2025-07-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use aws step functions for the actual processing, it's very cool tech!”
endorse · production · cdosborn · 2024-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just found out today that we spend 6k a month on Step Transitions”
regret · production · thefourthchime · 2023-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Lambda / Step for a few years now and it's been highly robust, easy to understand”
endorse · production · 3 yr · abcxjeb284 · 2020-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've migrated to a serverless architecture using Lambda and Step Functions to handle scaling.”
neutral · production · buzzbyjool · 2025-05-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“These are the services we used.”
neutral · production · scarface74 · 2020-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“IAM roles used by the Lambdas and Step Functions”
neutral · production · lovehashbrowns · 2020-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Didn't start using step functions earlier to bridge the gap between stateful processes and stateless processors”
neutral · production · Rapzid · 2017-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?