Amazon EventBridge

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What job does it solve?

Producers and consumers should be decoupled through content-based rules, SaaS events, or AWS service events.

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Where does it stop?

You only need a simple competing-consumer queue or topic fanout without event-bus routing.

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Closely related services

• Amazon SNSA publish-and-subscribe service that pushes each published message from a topic to every matching subscription.
• Amazon SQSA durable message queue where competing consumers receive and delete work independently of producers.
• AWS Step FunctionsCoordinates tasks as explicit state-machine workflows with branches, waits, retries, errors, and execution history.
• AWS LambdaRuns event-driven function code on managed infrastructure and scales executions within configured limits.

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Lessons that mention it

• Lesson 02Scale the work without losing the state
• Lesson 13Match each workload to the right AWS service
• Lesson 19Send each message to the right consumers
• Lesson 20Retry work without charging twice

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