EventBride

Central message service with the most amount of targets. Is used by AWS behind the scenes a lot.

Features¶

• Formerly known as CloudWatch Events.
• Schedule (cron jobs).
  • Schedule scripts.
• Event pattern (email when root user logs in).
  • React to events from another services.
• Trigger Lambda functions, send SQS/SNS messages.
• JSON format.
• Can archive events.
• Replay archived events.
• Event JSON is typed, can be nice for custom code/lambda.

Sources¶

• EC2.
• Code Build.
• S3.
• TrustedAdvisor.
• CloudTrail (any API call).
• schedule (cron).
• 3rd Party.

Targets¶

• Lambda
• Batch.
• ECS.
• docs/messaging/SQS.
• SNS.
• StepFunction.
• Pipelines.
• Kinesis
• SSM
• 3rd Party

Event Buses¶

• supports resource based policies.
  • Allow / deny events from another AWS account.
  • Aggregate all events from your AWS Organization in a single account or AWS region.
• Can allow events from other accounts.
• Can replay archived events.
• Can archive events (all / filter) sent to an event bus
  • indefinitely or set period.

Schema Registry¶

• schemas from events auto generated.
• Schemas can be versioned in registry.
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Default¶

• AWS Services.

Partner Event bus¶

• supported 3rd party events.
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-saas.html
  • Datadog.
  • Zendesk.
  • Auth0.

Custom Event Bus¶

• for custom apps.