My defaultAWSEvents and schedules

Amazon EventBridge

The event bus and scheduler I use all the time.

Simple, reliable, everywhere. EventBridge Scheduler also fixes Workers' UTC-only cron problem when the schedule lives on AWS.

Use it when

Routing AWS and application events to targets by content.
Schedules with time zones (EventBridge Scheduler), including starting Fargate tasks.

Provisioning

Official Pulumi package · Official Terraform provider

@pulumi/aws cloudwatch.EventRule / scheduler.Schedule.

Where it fits

Background jobs and retries: Pick 03.
Routing and schedules.
Event-driven plumbing: Pick 01.
Routing: send each event to whoever cares, by its content. Schedules too.
A job that runs for hours: Pick 02.
Scheduler starts the task, with time zones.

Sources

EventBridge Scheduler

Last reviewed 18 October 2026 by Nicolas Dao

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