EventBridge Pipes create point-to-point integrations between a source and a target — with optional filtering and enrichment — so you connect services like an SQS queue to a Step Functions workflow without writing glue code.
The tell
When a scenario needs to connect one source to one target (e.g., DynamoDB Streams → enrichment → a target), with optional filtering/transformation and no custom Lambda plumbing, that’s Pipes. EventBridge bus is many-to-many routing; Pipes is a managed point-to-point connector.
Test yourself
A team wants to connect a DynamoDB stream to a Step Functions workflow, with filtering and enrichment, without writing custom integration code. Which feature?
- EventBridge Pipes
- A custom Lambda integration
- Amazon SQS
- AWS Glue
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Correct answer: A. EventBridge Pipes provide managed point-to-point integration with built-in filtering and enrichment — no custom code. A custom Lambda (B) is exactly the plumbing Pipes removes; SQS (C) is a queue; Glue (D) is ETL, not event integration.
Related topics
Amazon EventBridge · AWS Step Functions · DynamoDB Streams
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