Introducing CloudWatch Events and Amazon EventBridge

Events have been previously defined as every activity that goes on in a system, events can also be the attached as a response to another event thereby triggering this event. CloudWatch Events is designed to be able to respond to changes in the different AWS resources and services. Using some rules that determine the specific action or activity that took place, CloudWatch events can be configured to respond according to that particular event that has occurred. CloudWatch Events is not available for all AWS services but a bunch of them that we will be exploring in the Components of a CloudWatch event section. The event triggered by CloudWatch can be sent over to other AWS resources to act on the event that has been triggered by the previous service.

An instance could be an event from Amazon CodePipeline that indicates that a build pipeline process has been triggered. This event can be tracked by Amazon CloudWatch Events, which...