A company needs to build an extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipeline that has separate...

AWS Step Functions is a fully managed, serverless orchestration service designed to coordinate multiple AWS services into reliable workflows. Step Functions natively provide automatic retries, error handling, state-level visibility, and execution history, which directly satisfy the requirements for retry logic and monitoring individual pipeline stages.

In this solution, AWS Lambda functions are used for batch data ingestion, AWS Glue jobs handle transformation, and Amazon S3 is used for storage. Step Functions orchestrate these stages while maintaining clear separation of responsibilities. Each step can be configured with retry and catch policies, allowing the workflow to automatically recover from transient failures without manual intervention.

Chaining AWS Glue jobs alone does not provide detailed stage-level visibility or flexible retry control, and setting MaxRetries to 0 contradicts the retry requirement. EventBridge-based pipelines lack native workflow state tracking. Amazon MWAA introduces unnecessary operational overhead, including environment management and Airflow maintenance.

Therefore, using AWS Step Functions to orchestrate Lambda and Glue provides the most scalable, observable, and low-maintenance solution.