Amazon EventBridge and Lambda for Incident Automation
Incident response delays cost organisations millions—and manual processes are killing your team’s velocity. This course teaches you to build event-driven automation that detects, routes, and resolves incidents in real-time using AWS EventBridge and Lambda, eliminating toil before it starts.
AIU.ac Verdict: Essential for DevOps engineers, SREs, and platform teams automating incident workflows at scale. You’ll gain hands-on experience with EventBridge routing rules and Lambda-based remediation. Note: assumes foundational AWS knowledge; not a beginner’s introduction to Lambda itself.
What This Course Covers
You’ll explore EventBridge as the central nervous system for incident detection, learning how to ingest events from CloudWatch, third-party monitoring tools, and custom applications. The course covers event pattern matching, rule creation, and dead-letter queue handling—critical for preventing alert fatigue and ensuring no incident falls through the cracks. You’ll then wire Lambda functions as targets, building automated responses: triggering runbooks, creating tickets, notifying teams, and executing remediation scripts without human intervention.
Practical modules focus on real-world scenarios: auto-scaling based on performance anomalies, auto-remediation of failed health checks, and cross-service orchestration. You’ll work through sandboxed labs that simulate production incident patterns, giving you confidence to implement these patterns in your own infrastructure immediately.
Who Is This Course For?
Ideal for:
- DevOps Engineers: Build self-healing infrastructure and reduce MTTR by automating incident detection and response workflows.
- Site Reliability Engineers (SREs): Implement event-driven incident automation at scale, freeing your team from repetitive on-call toil.
- Cloud Architects & Platform Teams: Design resilient, observable systems that respond to failures autonomously using AWS-native services.
May not suit:
- AWS Beginners: This assumes you’re comfortable with Lambda basics, IAM, and CloudWatch; start with foundational AWS courses first.
- Non-AWS Environments: Entirely AWS-focused; limited value if your stack is GCP, Azure, or on-premises only.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does Amazon EventBridge and Lambda for Incident Automation take?
1 hour 1 minute. Designed for focused learning—you can complete it in one sitting or break it into 15–20 minute modules.
What AWS experience do I need before starting?
You should be comfortable with Lambda basics, IAM roles, and CloudWatch. If you’re new to AWS, complete a foundational course first.
Will I get hands-on labs?
Yes. Pluralsight includes sandboxed labs where you’ll build EventBridge rules and Lambda functions in a live AWS environment.
Can I apply this to my current incident response process?
Absolutely. The course covers real-world patterns—auto-remediation, alert routing, and cross-service orchestration—you can implement immediately in production.
Course by Mario Mercado on Pluralsight. Duration: 1h 1m. Last verified by AIU.ac: March 2026.
