Delivery level for AWS service events - Amazon EventBridge
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Delivery level for AWS service events

Each AWS service that generates events sends them to EventBridge as either best effort or durable delivery attempts.

  • Best effort delivery means that the service attempts to send all events to EventBridge, but in some rare cases an event might not be delivered.

  • Durable delivery means the service will successfully attempt to deliver events to EventBridge at least once.

Once a valid event is delivered to EventBridge, EventBridge matches it against rules and then follows the retry policy and any dead-letter queue specified for the event target(s). For more information, see Retrying event delivery in the EventBridge User Guide.