[ocdnix]

Do you run into problems with Lambda's 5-minute maximum execution time for those kinds of operations? I'd like to do something similar to this for both RDS and DynamoDB, but the execution time will often surpass 5 minutes, meaning I'd have to run a Step Functions worker on EC2 or ECS. That opens up a whole bunch of complexity with managing the worker code and its deployment, which I'd rather avoid if possible.

[tjbiddle]

With the current implementation; no problems hitting the limit. As mentioned in my below comment, our query for anonymization would be the heaviest - but it's designed to be quick as we don't care about unique values for most data.

If we did though - Fargate is a great solution for it, but you wouldn't be able to feed data back into the next step without some additional complexity - Maybe have the next step pull an SQS queue, or an S3 file, or look for a database entry, etc. as it's next bit of data that it needs - and just fail until it finds it, and once the Fargate (Or whatever) has done it's job and placed it in your method of choice, then it could continue.