Purpose

This project demonstrates usage of the AWS EventBus service. You will see examples of:

• Sending events to the event bus and discreetly routing them via event rules
• Reprocessing events from the event archive

Overview

A demo project simulating a coin sorter - the kind that you can dump a pocketful of change into and it automatically separates them into separate silos, like this example:

Requirements

You will need:

• Terraform
• An AWS account with access to create resources.
• AWS CLI installed and configured
• Python for the testing scripts.
• The publish script is written in bash, but may work in PowerShell also.

Disclaimer

Although the services used in this tutorial might be inexpensive to most, they are not free. I am not responsible for any charges you incur, use at your own risk. I encourage you to be diligent with the AWS Pricing Calculator to help protect yourself from unexpected expenses.

Services used in this demo project include:

• SQS
• EventBridge Event Bus
  • Event Bus Archive
• IAM Policies

Labs

• Lab 0 - Prep - Setting Environment Variables
• Lab 1 - Event Bus and Event Rules
• Lab 2 - Replaying Events from the Archive