What is Amazon EventBridge?
Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus service that enables real-time response to state changes in your applications. Using an event bus, it collects data from multiple sources, processes and routes them between other AWS services or external SaaS providers. This simplifies the building of scalable and loosely coupled systems in event-driven architectures.
6 alternatives to Amazon EventBridge to consider
We’ll now look at alternatives to Amazon EventBridge - competing technologies that allow you to build realtime experiences for end-users.
Ably
Ably is the definitive realtime experience platform of the internet, serving more WebSocket connections than any other pub/sub platform. Our product suite places composable realtime in the hands of developers. Simple APIs, use case specific SDKs and pre-built integrations, enables the creation of a host of live experiences - including live updates, chat, collaboration, notifications and fan engagement - with no infrastructure to build.
Key Ably features and capabilities
- Ably is underpinned by a globally-distributed network of datacenters and edge acceleration points of presence.
- Ably‘s SDKs provide a consistent and idiomatic API across a variety of supported platforms.
- Connect with pre-built integrations for Webhooks, Lambdas, databases, cloud services, observability tools and stream processors.
- Build the ultimate realtime app with our feature rich suite of products - Pub/Sub and notifications, Chat, LiveObjects, LiveSync, and Spaces.
- Guaranteed message ordering and delivery.
- Global fault tolerance and a 99.999% uptime SLA.
- 6.5ms round trip message delivery latency.
- Elastic scalability to handle millions of concurrent clients.
- Consumption-based, per-minute-billing, built for scale. Ably not only enables you to make the most of your budget, but also enjoy greater flexibility, faster build times and a quicker ROI.
TriggerMesh
TriggerMesh is a declarative cloud-native event router built on top of Kubernetes which connects data and services from multiple sources in event driven applications.
Azure Event Grid
Azure Event Grid is a fully managed event routing service by Microsoft which simplifies the development of event-driven applications. It facilitates seamless event consumption and delivery across Azure and third-party services to any destination.
Confluent Kafka
Confluent Kafka is a distributed streaming platform built on Apache Kafka. It enables real-time data processing and high-volume event and fault tolerance streaming across different services. Confluent offers both cloud and self-hosted options.
Google EventArc
Google EventArc is a managed event service that simplifies event-driven architecture by integrating with Google Cloud services. It provides an easy setup with on-demand scaling, simplified routing, and a standard event format to streamline event creation.
MuleSoft
MuleSoft offers a comprehensive platform for integrating APIs and applications. It provides resources for API design, deployment, and management, supporting both cloud and on-premises deployment.
Disclaimer: The information on the alternatives presented here was based on documentation and resources freely available online and was last updated on 10 Jul 2026. Be sure to double-check everything before you make any decisions. If you do find anything incorrect or out of date, then please let us know.
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- 6M monthly messages
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- 200 concurrent connections
