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EventBridge

EventBridge

- [Instructor] You'll notice from our sample Lambda function that our function is triggered whenever there is an event that is fired when a new object is placed in our S3 bucket. You can add additional triggers, but if I choose a service that's anything other than S3, then my Lambda function will need to look at the incoming event since the event body will be different, and then call other code to do other things, which can get really messy. EventBridge allows us to do more with our event-driven architecture and create more complex pipelines and workflows that tie together our various AWS services. It takes events, such as timers going off or events happening within your AWS infrastructure and services, and bridges and filters those events to actions handled by other AWS services. If you are looking to send an email through SES or add an event to an SQS queue, whenever a new object is created within an S3 bucket,…

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