As mentioned in the previous section, the first state machine that we created doesn't involve any AWS Lambda functions. Let's use the sample projects that Step Functions provides and create a state machine that involves AWS Lambda functions.
Once you have signed in to the AWS Console, navigate to the AWS Step Functions landing page and click on Get Started within the Create state machine section. Clicking on Get Started takes us to the page where we can create an AWS Step Functions state machine from scratch, use sample projects, and choose from one of the starter templates. For this exercise, let's select Sample Projects (2-10 minutes).
From the list of Sample Projects, select Job Status Poller:
Then, click on ...
