# Amazon EventBridge

> The event bus and scheduler I use all the time.

- Verdict: My default
- Vendor: AWS
- Layer: [APIs, queues and events](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/layers/api-events.md). Job: Events and schedules
- Last reviewed: 18 October 2026, by Nicolas Dao (Cloudless Labs, Sydney)
- Web page: https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/aws-eventbridge/. The whole stack in one file: https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/brief.md

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](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/use-cases/background.md): pick 3. Routing and schedules.
- [Event-driven plumbing](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/use-cases/events.md): pick 1. Routing: send each event to whoever cares, by its content. Schedules too.
- [A job that runs for hours](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/use-cases/long-job.md): pick 2. Scheduler starts the task, with time zones.

## Sources

- [EventBridge Scheduler](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/scheduler/latest/UserGuide/what-is-scheduler.html)

## Related

- [APIs, queues and events](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/layers/api-events.md): every tool in this layer, with its verdict
- [The whole stack in one file](https://cloudlesslabs.com/stack/brief.md): every use case and tool, for questions that span many
- [Map of every Markdown file on cloudlesslabs.com, with what each one answers](https://ask.cloudlesslabs.com)