Amazon CloudWatch Events delivers a near real-time stream of system events that describe changes in Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources. Using simple rules that you can quickly set up, you can match events and route them to one or more target functions or streams.

What is a AWS CloudWatch event?

Amazon CloudWatch Events delivers a near real-time stream of system events that describe changes in Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources. Using simple rules that you can quickly set up, you can match events and route them to one or more target functions or streams.

What is the difference between CloudWatch alarm and event?

Alarms invoke actions only for sustained changes. Alarms watch a single metric and respond to changes in that metric; events can respond to actions (such as a lambda being created or some other change in your AWS environment) Alarms can be added to CloudWatch dashboards, but events cannot.