EventBridge Event Bus

External EventBridge Event Bus properties

Name:

type: string | required

• Altostra will use Name property for generating a logical ID:
  • Only strict alpha-numeric characters will be used (by the restrictions of CFN)
  • If non alpha-numeric characters were used in the name, the logical ID will be generated by the resource type
  • Up to 64 characters

Use default bus:

type: boolean

• A value that indicates that the default event bus of your AWS account should be used.

Event Bus Name:

type: string | required if Use default bus is false

• The name of the event bus that is used.
• Get from the AWS Console
  • Select the event bus from the event buses list in the AWS Console
  • Copy the Event bus name

Rules

Rule Name:

type: string | required

• The name of the event-bus rule
• Must be unique per event-bus
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• Profit!

Event Pattern:

type: JSON-string | required

• A JSON object that specifies event-patterns to filter events
• Each key must have an array of primitives, or an object that specifies nested event-pattern
• For more information read about Event Rules in the Amazon EventBridge User Guide

Event Rules connections

• Compute
  • Lambda
    • Trigger lambda with event-bus events
• Application Integration
  • SNS Topic
    • Send events to an SNS topic
  • SQS FIFO Queue
    • Send events to an SQS FIFO Queue
  • SQS Queue
    • Send events to an SQS standard Queue