# Amazon Batch event stream for Amazon EventBridge
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You can use the Amazon Batch event stream for Amazon EventBridge to receive near real-time notifications regarding the current state of jobs in your job queues.

You can use EventBridge to gain further insights about your Amazon Batch service. More specifically, you can use it to check the progress of jobs, build Amazon Batch custom workflows, generate usage reports or metrics, or build your own dashboards. With Amazon Batch and EventBridge, you don't need scheduling and monitoring code that continuously polls Amazon Batch for job status changes. Instead, you can handle Amazon Batch job state changes asynchronously using a variety of Amazon EventBridge targets. These include Amazon Lambda, Amazon Simple Queue Service, Amazon Simple Notification Service, or Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.

Events from the Amazon Batch event stream are ensured to be delivered at least one time. In the event that duplicate events are sent, the event provides enough information to identify duplicates. That way, you can compare the time stamp of the event and the job status.

Amazon Batch jobs are available as EventBridge targets. Using simple rules, you can match events and submit Amazon Batch jobs in response to them. For more information, see [What is EventBridge?](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-what-is.html) in the *Amazon EventBridge User Guide*. You can also use EventBridge to schedule automated actions that self-trigger at certain times using **cron** or rate expressions. For more information, see [Creating an Amazon EventBridge rule that runs on a schedule](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-create-rule-schedule.html) in the *Amazon EventBridge User Guide*. For an example walkthrough, see [Amazon Batch jobs as EventBridge targets](batch-cwe-target.md). For information about using the EventBridge Scheduler, see [Setting up Amazon EventBridge Scheduler](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/scheduler/latest/UserGuide/setting-up.html) in the Amazon EventBridge User Guide. 

**Topics**
+ [Amazon Batch events](batch_cwe_events.md)
+ [Tutorial: Use Amazon user notifications with Amazon Batch](using-user-notifications.md)
+ [Amazon Batch jobs as EventBridge targets](batch-cwe-target.md)
+ [Tutorial: Listen for Amazon Batch job events using EventBridge](batch_cwet.md)
+ [Tutorial: Sending Amazon Simple Notification Service alerts for failed job events](batch_sns_tutorial.md)