Amazon EventBridge
Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus service that makes it easy to connect your applications with data from a variety of sources. It was formerly known as Amazon CloudWatch Events.
Key Features
- Event Bus: Receives events from AWS services, your own apps, and SaaS partners.
- Rules: Filter and route events to specific targets (e.g., Lambda, SNS, SQS).
- Schema Registry: Discover and manage event schemas.
- SaaS Integration: Native integration with partners like Zendesk, Datadog, etc.
- Scheduler: Create schedules to trigger events (replacing CloudWatch Scheduled Rules).
Exam Tips
- "Event Bus": Answer is EventBridge.
- "SaaS Integration": Answer is EventBridge.
- "React to state changes": EventBridge Rules (e.g., EC2 instance state change).
- "CloudWatch Events": EventBridge is the evolution of CloudWatch Events.
Common Use Cases
- Event-Driven Architectures: Decoupling microservices.
- Automated Remediation: Triggering Lambda functions in response to system events.
- SaaS Integration: Reacting to events from third-party applications.