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EventBridge:Manage event streams

Last Updated:Mar 11, 2026

Event streams allow you to extract, convert, analyze, and load events from a source to a sink in real time. This helps you process streaming data with ease.

This topic describes how to create, enable, disable, edit, and delete event streams in the EventBridge console.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure that you have:

Create an event stream

  1. Log on to the EventBridge console.

  2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Event Streams.

  3. In the top navigation bar, select a region.

  4. On the Event Streams page, click Create Event Stream.

  5. In the Create Event Stream wizard, complete the following steps:

    1. In the Source step, configure the Data Provider parameter and other required parameters. Click Next Step.

    2. In the Filtering step, specify an event pattern in the Pattern Content code editor. Click Next Step.

    3. In the Transformation step, specify a transformation rule for events. Click Next Step. For more information, see Use Function Compute to perform message cleansing.

    4. In the Sink step, configure the event target.

  6. Configure the retry policy and dead-letter queue in the Task Property section. For more information, see Retry policies and dead-letter queues.

  7. Return to the Event Streams page and find the event stream. Click Enable in the Actions column.

    Enabling takes 30 to 60 seconds. Monitor the progress in the Status column.

Enable or disable an event stream

Warning

Disabling an event stream may interrupt your business or make it unavailable.

  1. Log on to the EventBridge console.

  2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Event Streams.

  3. In the top navigation bar, select a region.

  4. On the Event Streams page, find the target event stream and click Enable or Disable in the Actions column.

  5. In the Note dialog box, click OK.

Edit an event stream

  1. Log on to the EventBridge console.

  2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Event Streams.

  3. In the top navigation bar, select a region.

  4. On the Event Streams page, find the target event stream and click Edit in the Actions column.

  5. On the Edit Event Stream page, modify the basic information, the event source, the event filtering method, transformation rules, or the event target as needed. Click Save.

Delete an event stream

Warning

After deletion, all message data sent and received by the event stream is permanently lost and cannot be restored.

  1. Log on to the EventBridge console.

  2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Event Streams.

  3. In the top navigation bar, select a region.

  4. On the Event Streams page, find the target event stream and click Delete in the Actions column.

  5. In the Note dialog box, click OK.

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