Creating an Amazon EventBridge for Amazon EC2

We have already introduced Amazon EventBridge previously, and juxtaposed it with Amazon CloudWatch Events. We previously talked about CloudWatch Events, and we also explained that Amazon EventBridge is going to be taking the place of CloudWatch Events in the near future. The following screenshot is taken directly from the CloudWatch Events dashboard:

Figure 4.18 – CloudWatch Events deprecation

We also explained in Chapter 2, CloudWatch Events and Alarms (in the section entitled Amazon EventBridge), that EventBridge has some more unique features that do not exist in CloudWatch Events. In this section, we are going to explore what we can do to EC2 instances, based on event checking and responses by EventBridge. Amazon EC2 instances have various events that can be monitored, and an event triggered to respond to that particular event. The following list includes some of the events that can be triggered automatically...