EventBridge
Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus which delivers streams of events from event sources (applications, AWS resources, etc.) that to targets (e.g. API Gateway, or Lambda) based on a set of rules.
Concepts
- Buses act as brokers between event sources and targets, and serve as the boundary for rules.
- The default bus (per-account, per-region) receives AWS resource events.
- Custom buses can be created to send/receive events from different accounts and regions.
- Event sources
- AWS resources send events on configuration and state changes.
- Partner event sources allow AWS SaaS partners to push events to EventBridge buses.
- The
PutEvents
API method allows pushing custom events to the bus.
- Events indicate changes to AWS resources, e.g. an EC2 instance changes its state from
Pending
toRunning
after it's allocated a host or an application event. - Rules match incoming events and route them to targets (a single event can be routed to multiple targets) for processing.
- Event patterns specify conditions to determine which events match the rule.
- Schedules allow a rule to run at a specified time interval.
- Input transformers can define up to 100 additional variables on an event by extracting nested field values or concatenating multiple fields using JSON path expressions.
- Targets receive JSON payloads representing events' data and can perform actions based on it.
- API destinations, HTTP endpoints
- API Gateway
- Lambda functions
- Schemas describe event patterns
- Schemas for AWS services are already available
- Custom schemas can be created
- Archives allow for rolling retention of event history.
Operations
- Archive (save)
- Replay
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