--- title: Amazon EventBridge Reviews meta_title: 'Amazon EventBridge Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 37 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Amazon EventBridge works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 37 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: Cloud Data Integration url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-data-integration --- # Amazon EventBridge Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/enterprise-service-bus-esb) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 37 ## About Amazon EventBridge Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus service that simplifies the creation of event-driven applications by facilitating seamless communication between different components. It enables applications to respond in real-time to events from various sources, including AWS services, third-party SaaS applications, and custom applications, without the need for complex infrastructure management. Key Features and Functionality: - Event Buses: Act as routers that receive events from sources and deliver them to multiple targets, allowing for scalable event routing. - Pipes: Provide point-to-point integrations between event producers and consumers, supporting advanced transformations and enrichment of events prior to delivery. - Scheduler: Enables the creation, execution, and management of scheduled tasks at scale, supporting both cron-based and rate-based expressions for recurring patterns, as well as one-time invocations. - Content Filtering: Allows for complex rules that trigger under specific conditions, reducing the need for custom code in downstream services by handling content filtering at the event bus level. - Integration with AWS Services and SaaS Applications: Natively integrates with numerous AWS services and third-party SaaS applications, facilitating the building of event-driven architectures. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Amazon EventBridge addresses the challenge of building scalable, event-driven applications by providing a managed service that handles event ingestion, filtering, transformation, and delivery. It decouples application components, enabling independent scaling and deployment, which enhances agility and resilience. By offering native integrations and advanced features like content filtering and scheduling, EventBridge reduces the complexity and operational overhead associated with managing event-driven architectures, allowing developers to focus on delivering value through their applications. ## Amazon EventBridge Reviews ### 1. Effortless and secure asynchronous systems **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sujith C. | Senior Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Amazon EventBridge?** EventBridge supports event rules, which are useful in multiple usecases and scenarios. It supports infrastructure as code using Cloud formation. Fine-grained access controls can be implemented using IAM policies and policy conditions. Integration with many AWS services as well as third party services are supported. No-code solutions for event transformation, which is useful in some scenarios. The CRON based scheduling is also very useful for scheduled tasks. **What do you dislike about Amazon EventBridge?** By default, there is no way to track see events coming to an event bus, unless we define an event rule to pick the events and feed it to another system or logging solution. There are situations that can cause infinite loops, which could be a nightmare. **What problems is Amazon EventBridge solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps in designing asynchronous systems. Also very useful in designing schedulers. ### 2. Connected Apps and Services Without the Hassle **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adnan A. | Product Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon EventBridge?** I appreciate Amazon EventBridge's simplicity in connecting different services and applications through events. It streamlines integration, making it easy to build scalable and decoupled systems. The ability to create event-driven architectures without the hassle of managing infrastructure is a significant upside. **What do you dislike about Amazon EventBridge?** It could get a bit tricky with costs, so you need to keep an eye on that. Also, if you're new to event-driven setups, there might be a learning curve **What problems is Amazon EventBridge solving and how is that benefiting you?** Think of Amazon EventBridge as a smart organizer for data. It makes sure all our apps and services communicate without any mess, making my job as an administrator easier, like a traffic controller for information. ### 3. AmazonEventBridge is known as CloudWatchEvents ,handles the Communication between different Services **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sooraj s. | Specialist - Cloud Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon EventBridge?** Amazon EventBridge provides lots of benefits to the business that is looking for event-driven architecture and simplifies the connectivity between the application and services and communication as well as data transfers. **What do you dislike about Amazon EventBridge?** EventBridge feature called scheduler does not support non-Aws targets, Event bridge does not assure order it deliveries **What problems is Amazon EventBridge solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a business problem, it is trying to integrate the SAAS application and AWS services and It deliveries stream of real-time data from event sources and routes that data to targets like AWSLambda ### 4. Working with AWS EventBridge and Serverless for the past 1+ year on a Healthcare Product. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mazhar S. | Freelance Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon EventBridge?** The reliability is excellent and since we used cloud watch with event bridge debugging errors too is easy. Its pretty fast too avoid race conditions. We use over 24 events with transform mostly to update the MySQL which serves from a readable DB from the dynamo. We have custom events in addition to the dynamo change events, which makes our serverless microservice architecture changes easy. **What do you dislike about Amazon EventBridge?** Debugging in local doesn't work well with serverless offline. Ofcourse there are workarounds, but didn't work well with offline and specially when using dockers causes a lot of issues on the dynamo streams. This was the major issue which our team faces. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon EventBridge:** Though event bridge brings up complexity to your project, adding event bridge may help in creating a reliable product on a long time. Spend some time reading about the best practices while implementing, and I am sure the product will be rock solid. **What problems is Amazon EventBridge solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using microservices with docker on a serverless environment with CQRS with Dynamo and MySQL DB. We using event bridge to passdown event from multiple services to perform actions between internal systems and it really helps us with seperation of concerns and helps in removing duplicaiton of code. It has really helped us with CQRS - Command–query separation when we are seperating the read actions to a NoSQL DB, formatting them and updating into MySQL DB, this way the data is stored in the write DB without much actions and the data is moved to the formatted DB without much time lag. ### 5. The Event Bus to use if you're on low budget and use AWS... **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmed A. | Staff Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon EventBridge?** EventBridge on AWS is fully auto-scalable and much cheaper to use than AWS's version of Kafka **What do you dislike about Amazon EventBridge?** Less community support than Kafka, using with common frameworks like Java and Spring Boot is more complicated. **What problems is Amazon EventBridge solving and how is that benefiting you?** A lot of cost savings when compared to using AWS's version of Kafka (Amazon MSK) ### 6. Personal opinion **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Animation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon EventBridge?** This is the study that Amazon conducts before putting its product on sale. **What do you dislike about Amazon EventBridge?** Swimming, these are the difficult moments for me **Recommendations to others considering Amazon EventBridge:** Amazon provides the opportunity to give explanations about the danger an object may pose, how to avoid them, and if you commit to taking the object, you are given the possibilities to be able to counter all the risks. **What problems is Amazon EventBridge solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Amazon, I try to measure what I like, evaluate it, and make the decision based on what I don't like, that is, if what I don't like is greater than what I like, I don't take it. ### 7. Great platform to hunt talent **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon EventBridge?** User-friendly system, easy tracking, event details, and past records **What do you dislike about Amazon EventBridge?** You need to make sure you are entering all details correct and not skipping any step **What problems is Amazon EventBridge solving and how is that benefiting you?** records, data. event resource tracking, time saver, memory saver ### 8. We use it quite a lot! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon EventBridge?** The colloabartive nature the tool makes it very easy to use as a team **What do you dislike about Amazon EventBridge?** The cost, a little more than we want to pay. **What problems is Amazon EventBridge solving and how is that benefiting you?** No major ones at this point. It is widely adopted. ### 9. We are happy with eventbridge and we use partner integration to have a simplified integration setup **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon EventBridge?** Its easy to setup the integration to a partner and in our case we use zendesk eventbridge partner integration and we then connect it to a microservice by applying a eventbridge rule that filters out to a specific event **What do you dislike about Amazon EventBridge?** Its really hard to debug rules if the events is not matching the rules and targets as for today is limited to most of the amazon services **Recommendations to others considering Amazon EventBridge:** Its a nice service but there is up to a certain level of events where use of kinsesis is cheaper, there is a talk from reinvent 2019 about this with eventbridge and kinesis **What problems is Amazon EventBridge solving and how is that benefiting you?** To write less code to get data from zendesk into the microservice and to be able to scale it out to other services in a easy and scalable way ### 10. Amazon EventBridge **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon EventBridge?** Easy UX Cost-effective Great support - online documentation **What do you dislike about Amazon EventBridge?** The transition from other platforms Cost for low volumes **What problems is Amazon EventBridge solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration of other SAAS services ### 11. great customer support **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon EventBridge?** great quality support and customer service from Amazon **What do you dislike about Amazon EventBridge?** data visualization options and add ons could be improved **What problems is Amazon EventBridge solving and how is that benefiting you?** helps manage file transfers and MDM organization ## Amazon EventBridge Discussions - [How can one use the product and avoid falling into the trap?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/comment-peut-on-utiliser-le-produit-et-eviter-de-tomber-dans-le-piege) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [I am good no question. 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