AWS::StepFunctions::Activity

Use the AWS::StepFunctions::Activity resource to create an AWS Step Functions activity.

For information about creating an activity and creating a state machine with an activity, see Tutorial: An Activity State Machine in the AWS Step Functions Developer Guide and CreateActivity in the AWS Step Functions API Reference.

Syntax

{
   "Type": "AWS::StepFunctions::Activity",
   "Properties": {
      "Name": String
    }
}

Type: "AWS::StepFunctions::Activity"
Properties:
  Name: String

Properties

Return Values

Ref

When you provide the logical ID of this resource to the Ref intrinsic function, Ref returns the ARN of the created activity. For example:

{ "Ref": "MyActivity" }

Returns a value similar to the following:

arn:aws:states:us-east-1:111122223333:activity:myActivity

For more information about using the Ref function, see Ref.

Fn::GetAtt

Fn::GetAtt returns a value for a specified attribute of this type. The following are the available attributes and sample return values.

For more information about using Fn::GetAtt, see Fn::GetAtt.

Example

The following example creates a Step Functions activity.

{
   "AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "2010-09-09",
   "Description" : "An example template for a Step Functions activity.",
   "Resources" : {
      "MyActivity" : {
         "Type" : "AWS::StepFunctions::Activity",
         "Properties" : {
            "Name" : "myActivity"
        }
      }
   }
}

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: "2010-09-09"
Description: "A sample template for a Step Functions activity"
Resources: 
  MyActivity:
    Type: "AWS::StepFunctions::Activity"
    Properties: 
      Name: myActivity

On this page:

• Syntax
• Properties
• Return Values
• Example