Processing File Uploads Asynchronously with Amazon EventBridge

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus from AWS. It enables sophisticated event-driven architectures where system components interact and respond with each other asynchronously.

Learning how to use Amazon EventBridge will make you more effective at deploying complex systems in the public AWS cloud.

In this hands-on lab, you will use Amazon EventBridge to asynchronously convert a document file uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:

• Create a new Amazon EventBridge rule
• Configure an EventBridge rule to transform event data
• Test your rule
• See how to monitor your rule

Intended Audience

• Candidates for AWS certification
• Cloud Architects
• Data Engineers
• DevOps Engineers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

• Amazon EventBridge
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
• AWS Lambda

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

• Connecting Application Data using Amazon EventBridge
• Introduction to Amazon S3
• Introduction to AWS Lambda
  

Updates

June 9th, 2025 - Updated instructions to omit Lambda execution role on EventBridge rule