Amazon Eventbridge

This guide contains information to set up a Amazon Eventbridge Source in Vanus Connect.

Introduction

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless service that uses events to connect application components together, making it easier for you to build scalable event-driven applications.

The Amazon EventBridge Source is a webhook server that enables you to establish an endpoint for receiving events from Amazon EventBridge. To achieve this, it is necessary to establish a connection within Amazon EventBridge.

Prerequisites

• A Vanus Cloud account
• An AWS Account with Administrative Privileges

Getting Started

Create your connection in Vanus Connect

To obtain all Amazon Eventbridge events in Vanus Connect, follow these steps:

• Write a Name① for your connection in Vanus Connect.

• Click on the copy② icon to copy the Webhook URL. Use the Webhook URL to receive events.

Configure Amazon Eventbridge to receive Events

Step 1: Create an Event Bus

1. Search for Eventbridge① and select Amazon EventBridge② from the results.

2. In the side menu click Event buses③.

3. Click on Create event bus④ to create a new event bus, if you haven't already.

4. Write a Name⑤ and press Create⑥.

Step 2: Create a Rule

1. Go to Rules① from the side menu and click Create rule②.

2. Name③ your rule, select your Event bus④ and press Next⑤.

3. Select all events⑥.

4. Press Next⑦ to continue.

Step 3: Create an API Destination and Connection

1. Set your API destination

• Select EventBridge API destination①.
• Select Create a new API destination② under API destination.
• Write a connection Name③.
• Set the API destination endpoint④ to the URL from Vanus Connect.
• Set the HTTP method⑤ as POST.

2. Create a connection

• Select Create a new connection⑥.
• Write a Connection name⑦.
• Select Basic (Username/Password)⑧ under Authorization type.

3. Authorization

• Create a Username⑨ and a Password⑩ of your choice, this won't be needed in this scenario but it is required.
• Press Next⑪.

4. Under Configure tags - optional press Next⑫.

5. Review and press Create rule⑬.

Now every event sent to your Event Bus will be sent to your Vanus connection.

6. Go back to Vanus Connect and click Next⑭ to continue the configuration.

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