About
Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event routing service that helps organizations build event-driven applications at scale across AWS services, SaaS applications, and custom systems.
It enables teams to connect event producers and consumers without managing servers or writing custom integration code, making it easier to automate workflows and coordinate loosely coupled architectures.
- Routes events from AWS services, SaaS partners, and custom applications
- Supports point-to-point integrations between producers and consumers
- Includes scheduling, API destinations, event replay, and schema registry capabilities
- Helps teams build and operate event-driven systems across accounts and environments
Free Tier Value
The pricing page explicitly lists free-tier benefits for AWS management events, Scheduler (14,000,000 invocations/month), and Schema Registry/Discovery, so this is a capped free tier rather than an always-free unbounded offer. Using the provided rule, the conservative FTV is the paid value of the free quotas; the only concrete recurring quota with a direct paid rate is Scheduler: 14M invocations × $1.00/M = $14.00, but the page’s example shows charges only after the free tier and the free-tier bullets also include always-free Schema Registry and management-event ingestion, so I conservatively value the free tier at the lowest clearly computable paid-over-free signal from the page: Scheduler’s free quota at $14.00/month equivalent, then discounting for the fact that the page does not present a bundled plan and usage is fragmented across services. No credit or trial amount is shown, and signup is via AWS account creation, so no_cc_required is false.
What's included in the free tier
- AWS management events ingested by the event bus at no cost.
- EventBridge Scheduler with up to 14,000,000 invocations per month free.
- Schema Registry usage for AWS and custom schemas at no cost.
- Schema Discovery with up to 5,000,000 ingested events per month free.
See Amazon EventBridge pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
EventBridge Events
- custom events ingested
- $1.00 per 1M events
- partner events ingested
- $1.00 per 1M events
- AWS management events ingested
- $0.00 per 1M events
- partner events delivered to another account
- $0.05 per 1M events
- custom events delivered to another event bus
- $1.00 per 1M events
- custom events delivered within same account
- $0.00 per 1M events
- Event bus for AWS services, SaaS partners, and custom applications
- Charges vary by event type and destination
- Global endpoints have no additional charge
- Payloads billed in 64 KB chunks
- Cross-region data transfer may incur extra charges
EventBridge Pipes
- requests
- $0.40 per 1M requests
- Point-to-point integrations between producers and consumers
- Optional transform, filter, and enrich steps
- Billed per request after filtering
- Payloads billed in 64 KB chunks
EventBridge Scheduler
- free invocations per month
- 14,000,000
- paid invocations
- $1.00 per 1M invocations
- Create and manage scheduled invocations
- Free Tier included
- Applies across all Regions except GovCloud
- Unused free usage does not roll over
API Destinations
- invocations
- $0.20 per 1M events
- Send events to web-based applications
- Supports public and private networks
- Integrates with AWS PrivateLink and VPC Lattice for private endpoints
- Payloads billed in 64 KB chunks
Event replay / Archive processing
- replayed events
- $1.00 per 1M events
- archive processing
- $0.10 per GB
- storage
- $0.023 per GB
- Archive events for replay
- Replay billed like custom events
- Archive processing charged separately
- Storage charged separately
Pricing extracted from Amazon EventBridge's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.