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EventBridge Developer Patterns

April 5, 2026

Event-Driven Architectures

SaaS event bus, custom events, filtering/routing.

EventBridge Architecture

Sources:
Default Bus: 200+ AWS services
Partner Event Sources: SaaS (Stripe/Zendesk)
Custom Events: Application events

Targets:
Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, Kinesis
API destinations (webhooks)

Event Patterns:
{"source": ["myapp.order"], "detail-type": ["OrderCreated"]}

Schema Registry:
- OpenAPI/EventBridge schemas
- Event generation from payloads

Advanced Features

  • Event replay (last 24hrs)
  • Input transformers
  • Archive/replay events