A county planning office needs a multi-step building-permit workflo…

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A county planning office needs a multi-step building-permit workflow that calls inspection, fee, and zoning services in order, retries transient failures, and runs compensating steps if a later stage fails. Which approach best meets reliability and orchestration needs?

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Use AWS Step Functions to orchestrate the permit stages with retries, catchers, and compensating transactions for failed paths — Picture the permit as a relay race with a clipboard that never gets lost. Step Functions keeps that clipboard—retries the dropped baton and runs undo steps when a later leg fails.

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Chain the stages with nested Lambda functions that call each other synchronously and store progress only in local /tmp

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Put every stage on a single SQS queue and let workers decide the next step without a durable state machine

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Schedule the stages with Amazon EventBridge Scheduler cron rules and ignore intermediate state between runs

A county planning office needs a multi-step building-permit workflow that calls inspection, fee, and zoning services in order, retries transient failures, and runs compensating steps if a later stage fails. Which approach best meets reliability and orchestration needs?

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