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Amazon EventBridge is the preferred way to manage your events. CloudWatch Events and EventBridge are the same underlying service and API, but EventBridge provides more features. Changes you make in either CloudWatch or EventBridge will appear in each console. For more information, see Amazon EventBridge. |
The following table describes important changes in each release of the CloudWatch Events User Guide, beginning in June 2018. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.
| Change | Description | Date |
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Support for tagging | You can now tag some CloudWatch Events resources. For more information, see Tagging Your Amazon CloudWatch Events Resources in the Amazon CloudWatch Events User Guide. | March 21, 2019 |
Support for Amazon VPC endpoints | You can now establish a private connection between your VPC and CloudWatch Events. For more information, see Using CloudWatch Events with Interface VPC Endpoints in the Amazon CloudWatch Events User Guide. | June 28, 2018 |
The following table describes the important changes to the Amazon CloudWatch Events User Guide.
| Change | Description | Release Date |
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CodeBuild as a target |
Added CodeBuild as a target for event rules. For more information, see Tutorial: Schedule Automated Builds Using CodeBuild. |
13 December 2017 |
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Amazon Batch as a target |
Added Amazon Batch as a target for Event rules. For more information, see Amazon Batch Events. |
September 8, 2017 |
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CodePipeline and Amazon Glue events |
Added support for events from CodePipeline and Amazon Glue. For more information, see CodePipeline Events and Amazon Glue Events. |
September 8, 2017 |
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CodeBuild and CodeCommit events |
Added support for events from CodeBuild and CodeCommit. For more information, see CodeBuild Events. |
August 3, 2017 |
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Additional targets supported |
CodePipeline and Amazon Inspector can be targets of events. |
June 29, 2017 |
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Support for sending and receiving events between Amazon accounts |
An Amazon account can send events to another Amazon account. For more information, see Sending and Receiving Events Between Amazon Accounts. |
June 29, 2017 |
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Additional targets supported |
You can now set two additional Amazon services as targets for event actions: Amazon EC2 instances (via Run Command), and Step Functions state machines. For more information, see Getting Started with Amazon CloudWatch Events. |
March 7, 2017 |
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Amazon EMR events |
Added support for events for Amazon EMR. For more information, see Amazon EMR Events. |
March 7, 2017 |
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Amazon Health events |
Added support for events for Amazon Health. For more information, see Amazon Health Events. |
December 1, 2016 |
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Amazon Elastic Container Service events |
Added support for events for Amazon ECS. For more information, see Amazon Elastic Container Service Events. |
November 21, 2016 |
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Amazon Trusted Advisor events |
Added support for events for Trusted Advisor. For more information, see Amazon Trusted Advisor Events. |
November 18, 2016 |
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Amazon Elastic Block Store events |
Added support for events for Amazon EBS. For more information, see Amazon EBS Events. |
November 14, 2016 |
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Amazon CodeDeploy events |
Added support for events for CodeDeploy. For more information, see Amazon CodeDeploy Events. |
September 9, 2016 |
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Scheduled events with 1 minute granularity |
Added support for scheduled events with 1 minute granularity. For more information, see Cron Expressions and Rate Expressions. |
April 19, 2016 |
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Amazon Simple Queue Service queues as targets |
Added support for Amazon SQS queues as targets. For more information, see What Is Amazon CloudWatch Events?. |
March 30, 2016 |
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Auto Scaling events |
Added support for events for Auto Scaling lifecycle hooks. For more information, see Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Events. |
February 24, 2016 |
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New service |
Initial release of CloudWatch Events. |
January 14, 2016 |