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Event Target for Amazon EventBridge

This event Target receives arbitrary CloudEvents over HTTP and sends them to an Amazon EventBridge partner event bus in a JSON format.

Deploying an Instance of the Target

Open the Bridge creation screen and add a target of type Amazon EventBridge.

Adding an Amazon EventBridge target

In the Target creation form, provide a name for the event Target and add the following information:

  • AWS account ID: defines the AWS account in which the TriggerMesh partner event source is to be created.
  • AWS region: defines the AWS region in which the TriggerMesh partner event source is to be created.

Amazon EventBridge target form

After clicking the Save button, you will be taken back to the Bridge editor. Proceed to adding the remaining components to the Bridge, then submit it.

Bridge overview

A ready status on the main Bridges page indicates that the TriggerMesh partner event source was successfully created.

Bridge status

Although this event source can immediately start receiving events, those events can only be consumed after associating the TriggerMesh partner event source with a corresponding partner event bus.

To associate the TriggerMesh partner event source with a partner event bus:

  1. Navigate to the Partner event sources menu of the Amazon EventBridge Console.
  2. Select the "Pending" partner event source which name starts with aws.partner/triggermesh.com.
  3. Click the Associate with event bus button.

Partner event sources

On the next screen called Associate with event bus, click the Associate button.

Associate with event bus

Back to the Partner event sources page, your partner event source should now show as "Active".

Successful association

You will also see a custom event bus named after the TriggerMesh partner event source on the Event buses page.

Event buses

Your can now start creating rules that trigger on certain events in the Amazon EventBridge console.

For more information about using Amazon EventBridge, please refer to the EventBridge user guide.

Event Types

The Amazon EventBridge event Target can consume events of any type.