EVENTBRIDGE-EVENTS

AWS serverless event bus, ex-CWE.

Definition

EventBridge components: Buses (default, custom, partner), Rules (event pattern match), Targets (~30 AWS services), Schemas (registry and discoverer), Archive and Replay. Cross-region replication. Schema Registry auto-discovery OpenAPI 3 + JSON Schema. Pricing $1/M custom events published. Successor CloudWatch Events rebrand 2019.

Origin

CloudWatch Events launched 2016 ; EventBridge rebrand July 2019 ; Partner Events 2019.

Example in context

An e-commerce app publishes OrderCreated on custom EventBridge bus ; Rule routes to Lambda warehouse + SQS fulfillment + Step Functions accounting.

Related terms

• Webhooks — source pattern.