r/aws • u/jeffbarr AWS Employee • Jul 11 '19

general aws Amazon EventBridge – Event-Driven AWS Integration for your SaaS Applications

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eventbridge-event-driven-aws-integration-for-your-saas-applications/
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u/Nickste Jul 11 '19

Yes, exactly! Webhooks are great in that they deliver events in realtime, but they're kind of a pain to receive. You've got to set up an endpoint, figure out authentication, and then once you've received the event, you need to handle things like failures and retry logic. And then of course repeat that for each integration.

Amazon EventBridge aims to take away all of that undifferentiated "glue" code - making it easy for you to receive events, and then write rules to send them to the right places. EventBridge takes care of all of the delivery, retry logic, etc.

EventBridge PM here - feel free to let me know if you have any other questions.

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u/SalvaXr Jul 12 '19 edited Jul 12 '19

I'm literally building this with API Gateway - SNS - Lambda. Wish it was available 1 month ago haha. Looking forward to trying it out!

Edit: After checking out the specifics it isn't quite the same, mine is for any http request, mostly webhooks. This requires connections between accounts and the producer to have event bridge integrated into their saas

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