AWS Step Functions workflows now available as AI agent tools

AWS Step Functions and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway Integration

AWS Step Functions now integrates with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, enabling AI agents to use Step Functions workflows as tools. This integration allows agents to execute multi-step business processes consistently, leveraging existing Standard and Express workflows.

Key Features

• AI agents can decide when to run workflows and pass inputs.
• Step Functions executes workflows exactly as defined.
• Agents can run multi-step business processes in the same order every time.
• Agents can look up workflow runs for troubleshooting and monitoring.

What to do

• Follow the tutorial in the Step Functions Developer Guide.
• Refer to the Step Functions connector targets in the AgentCore Gateway documentation.
• Use the Agent Toolkit for AWS to enhance AI coding assistants.

Source: AWS release notes

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