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Amazon EventBridge

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus service that makes it easy to connect your applications with data from a variety of sources. EventBridge delivers a stream of real-time data from your own applications, SaaS applications, and AWS services and routes that data to targets such as Lambda, SNS, SQS, and more.

agent aware

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Amazon EventBridge the way a machine reads it — 139 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Amazon EventBridge scores 59.9/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 26/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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How we profile Amazon EventBridge

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon EventBridge. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 5

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Amazon EventBridge Archives API

Operations for managing event archives.

Amazon EventBridge Event Buses API

Operations for managing event buses.

Amazon EventBridge Events API

Operations for putting events to EventBridge.

Amazon EventBridge Rules API

Operations for managing EventBridge rules.

Amazon EventBridge Targets API

Operations for managing rule targets.

Postman Collections 1

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

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Arazzo Workflows 9

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Amazon EventBridge Archive Event Bus

Create a bus, resolve its ARN, then archive matching events from it.

ARAZZO

Amazon EventBridge Audit Bus Rules

List event buses, list a bus's rules, then describe a chosen rule.

ARAZZO

Amazon EventBridge Create and Verify Archive

Create an event archive, then list archives to confirm it exists.

ARAZZO

Amazon EventBridge Create Rule with Targets

Create a rule on an existing event bus, attach targets, and verify them.

ARAZZO

Amazon EventBridge Decommission Rule

List a rule's targets, remove them, then delete the rule cleanly.

ARAZZO

Amazon EventBridge Inspect Rule and Targets

Describe a rule's configuration, then list the targets attached to it.

ARAZZO

Amazon EventBridge Provision Event Bus Routing

Stand up a custom event bus, attach a rule, wire targets, and confirm the wiring.

ARAZZO

Amazon EventBridge Route and Emit Event

Create a rule, attach a target, then publish a matching event onto the bus.

ARAZZO

Amazon EventBridge Teardown Event Bus

Inspect a bus's rules, delete a rule, then delete the custom event bus.

ARAZZO

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Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Amazon Eventbridge Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 5

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Event Bus

Central event bus for routing events between AWS services and applications

Event Rules

Create rules to filter and route events to specific targets

Schema Registry

Discover, create, and manage event schemas with code binding generation

SaaS Integrations

Receive events from SaaS partners like Zendesk, Datadog, and PagerDuty

API Destinations

Send events to external HTTP endpoints via API Destinations

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Amazon EventBridge Event Delivery

Amazon EventBridge delivers events from event sources to targets based on rules you define. This AsyncAPI specification documents the event channels and message schemas for even...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Amazon Eventbridge Context

5 classes · 9 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Amazon EventBridge API Rules

4 rules · 1 errors · 2 warnings

SPECTRAL

Amazon EventBridge API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Amazon EventBridge API Rules

25 rules · 10 errors · 14 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 30

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

CreateArchiveRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateArchiveResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateEventBusRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateEventBusResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteEventBusRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteRuleRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeEventBusRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeEventBusResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeRuleRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeRuleResponse

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventBus

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Amazon EventBridge Event

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListArchivesRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListArchivesResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListEventBusesRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListEventBusesResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListRulesRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListRulesResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListTargetsByRuleRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListTargetsByRuleResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PutEventsRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PutEventsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PutRuleRequest

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PutRuleResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PutTargetsRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PutTargetsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RemoveTargetsRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RemoveTargetsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Rule

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Target

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 30

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Amazon Eventbridge Event Bus Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Eventbridge Event Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Eventbridge Rule Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Eventbridge Target Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 30

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Amazon Eventbridge Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Amazon Eventbridge Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Eventbridge Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Amazon Eventbridge Trust Center

PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Amazon Eventbridge Agentic Access

14 operations · 14 acting

14 operations · 14 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 4

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Microservices Decoupling

Decouple microservices by routing events through a central event bus

Application Monitoring

React to CloudWatch alarms and AWS service events in real time

SaaS Event Processing

Receive and process events from SaaS applications without polling

Multi-Account Event Routing

Route events across AWS accounts and regions for enterprise architectures

Integrations 5

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

AWS Lambda

Invoke Lambda functions in response to events

Amazon SNS

Fan out events to multiple subscribers via SNS topics

Amazon SQS

Queue events for reliable processing with SQS

AWS Step Functions

Start state machine executions in response to events

Zendesk

Receive Zendesk support ticket and activity events

Resources

Every other property we hold for Amazon EventBridge — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Amazon EventBridge, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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