I have published an InfoQ news post about the AWS team's functionless solution for rendering many utility-glue Lambda functions in serverless workflows superfluous:
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that AWS Step Functions supports over 200 AWS services via an AWS SDK integration, thereby expanding the number of supported API actions from 46 to over 9,000. The new integration type can support most existing and future services and API actions going forward.
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