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Amazon EventBridge

"Serverless event bus for event-driven applications."

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.
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