Amazon EventBridge
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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.