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An introduction

to event-driven
architectures
I N T R O D U C T IO N

Events are everywhere: A customer places an item in a shopping cart. A financial document is
submitted. A new user creates an account. A healthcare dataset is uploaded. In an event-driven
architecture (EDA), events are the center of an application, powering communication between
integrated systems. Building event-driven architectures is driving innovation across industries,
with organizations like Taco Bell, Bosch Thermotechnology, and Nationwide Children’s
Hospital. Event-driven architectures can help you accelerate modernization, reduce total cost
of ownership (TCO), and build better products faster.

The diagram on the next page depicts a typical event-driven architecture, which comprises
event producers, event brokers, and event consumers. Business events like placing an order
or submitting a return are created by event producers. An event broker receives those events
and sends them on to the event consumers. Event consumers need to take action on the events.
They include backend systems, warehouse management, finance, and customer relations.

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Figure 1: Example of an event-driven architecture

Event producer Event consumer

Retail website New order New order Return Warehouse


A customer places a management database
new order through The events trigger
the website the warehouse to update
Question inventory and item availability
about stock

Mobile app Question Event broker Finance systems


A customer submits about stock The router ingests, Return New order The events trigger
a question about the filters, and pushes the finance system
availability of an item the events to to update based on
through the app the appropiate the sale and return
consumers

New order

Point-of-sale Return Question Customer relations


A customer returns about stock The events trigger
an item in person the customer team to
at the store respond to the order
and inquiry

With events, customers can create loosely coupled, fault-tolerant integrations between
microservices, software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, and applications running on premises
and in the cloud. Building with asynchronous events gives development teams the ability
to build and deploy independently, enabling them to launch features faster and deliver
better customer experiences. Event-driven architectures enable businesses to unlock agility,
extensibility, and real-time business insights.

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Why organizations are
adopting EDAs to build
modern applications

An event-driven architecture enables you to provide richer customer experiences in a scalable


and reliable manner. Increasingly, organizations are using EDAs to build modern applications
for several reasons:

1. Event-driven architectures accelerate your path to


modernization, while reducing the overall cost to modernize.
Organizations building event-driven applications are able to add
onto their applications without a significant refactoring effort. With
event-driven architectures, the new and old systems can coexist
without adding integration complexity. Organizations can consume
events from legacy applications while migrating to a modern cloud
architecture, making their path to modernization much faster.

2. Event-driven architectures give customers the


agility to respond to change, avoid disruption, and
accelerate innovation.
Organizations are under pressure to respond to ever-increasing
customer demands, market dynamics, and industry competition.
When they build event-driven architectures, new services can
subscribe to events already being published without impacting
existing applications. And development teams do not have to rebuild
existing application components. This enables businesses to build
new features and products at a faster pace with less risk of disruption.

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3. Event-driven architectures provide real-time, actionable
insights, creating better experiences for your customers.
Organizations are looking for ways to unlock the value of events and
data in their applications. They want to build dynamic, high-quality
experiences and use artificial intelligence (AI)- and machine learning
(ML)-powered personalization to better engage their end users. They
also want to extract valuable insights from their events that are
actionable today rather than waiting for a weekly or monthly report
cycle. Event-driven architectures allow customers to ingest, process,
and react to events in real time.

4. Event-driven architectures enhance fault tolerance


and scalability.
With asynchronous events, upstream systems can buffer the volume
of events they are sending to downstream systems. This allows
applications to scale for peaks without overwhelming any part of the
application. In an event-driven architecture, producers are unaware of
any activity of downstream event consumers, which means they are
unaware of any failures.

Watch the video: Getting Started with Event-Driven Architecture ›

Increase agility, avoid disruption,


and accelerate innovation with
event-driven architectures on AWS.

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Building event-driven
architectures on AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes it easier to build event-driven architectures by offering a
comprehensive set of serverless services that gives organizations the ability to select the right
tool to fit their business requirements and reduce the amount of integration code needed.

Using AWS serverless services accelerates the building of event-driven architectures.


Serverless services have native integrations with event services, only run when there are Over 1 million
events to process, and can scale up and down automatically as event volume changes—all customers use
of which makes serverless highly compatible with event-driven architectures. AWS serverless AWS serverless
services are built around events and have broad adoption by customers across industries, for over 10
with over one million customers using AWS Lambda for over 10 trillion requests per month. trillion requests
per month.
Reduce costs by paying only for what you use
When customers build event-driven architectures on AWS, they can supercharge their pace
of development and lower their operational costs by reducing the amount of continuous
polling infrastructure and always-on capacity they are paying for. Instead, they can push
asynchronous events and allow resources to scale up and down with event volume.

With serverless and managed integration services, customers can take advantage of
built-in functionality and infrastructure management, allowing them to build faster and
maintain less.

Organizations can integrate across a portfolio of over 200 AWS services and more than 45
natively integrated SaaS partners. Where organizations building event-driven architectures
would previously need to do the heavy lifting of writing code for emitting, ingesting, and
processing events themselves, on AWS, over 80 services emit events by default, making
EDAs a natural fit. One example is Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), which
sends over 125 billion event notifications to serverless applications each day.

AWS continues to invest and innovate in services that help organizations build event-
driven architectures, transform application development, and accelerate their innovation.

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C O N C L U SIO N

Better outcomes for your business and your


customers with AWS
Event-driven architectures offer business and operational benefits across many use cases,
helping accelerate application modernization at a lower cost. Loosely coupled applications
increase developers’ agility, enabling them to build scalable, fault-tolerant applications quickly
and delight customers.

AWS makes it easier for organizations to build event-driven architectures with the most
comprehensive set of serverless services, pre-built integrations, and continuous innovation.
Transform your application development, accelerate innovation, and save costs with an event-
driven architecture built on AWS.

Learn more about AWS services for event-driven architecture ›

Read the technical guide Building Event-Driven Architectures on AWS


to learn more about event-driven architecture patterns ›

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