EventBridge

  • Evolution of CloudWatch Events
  • Can have multiple source:
    • Default Event bus - Generated by AWS services (similar to CloudWatch Events
    • Partner Event Bus - receive event from third party (Zendesk, DataDog, Segment, Auth0)
    • Custom Event Buses - For your own application
  • Event buses can be accessed by other AWS Resources
  • You can archive events, send events to an event bus (indefinitely or set period)
    • Event bus: the source of an event
  • Ability to replay archived events
  • Have rules on hwo to process ther events
  • Resource-based Policy
    • Allow/Deny events from another account or AWS regions
    • Manage permissions for specific event bus