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API Destinations with Amazon EventBridge

API Destinations in AWS are a feature of Amazon EventBridge that allow you to invoke external APIs as part of your event-driven workflows. They are essential when integrating third-party services or custom APIs into an event-driven architecture

Here’s a step-by-step guide to setting up an API Destination in AWS EventBridge. This example demonstrates how to send an event to a hypothetical external API that logs messages.

Besides API Destinations, there are alternative ways to invoke an HTTP API through Amazon EventBridge. These methods can be useful depending on your use case and existing infrastructure

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