CloudWatch Events code examples for the SDK for JavaScript (v3)

Overview

Shows how to use the AWS SDK for JavaScript (v3) to work with Amazon CloudWatch Events.

CloudWatch Events send system events from AWS resources to AWS Lambda functions, Amazon Simple Notification Service topics, streams in Amazon Kinesis, and other target types.

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Code examples

Prerequisites

For prerequisites, see the README in the javascriptv3 folder.

Single actions

Code excerpts that show you how to call individual service functions.

Run the examples

Instructions

Note: All code examples are written in ECMAscript 6 (ES6). For guidelines on converting to CommonJS, see JavaScript ES6/CommonJS syntax.

Run a single action

bash

node ./actions/<fileName>

Run a scenario

Most scenarios can be run with the following command:

bash

node ./scenarios/<fileName>

Run with options

Some actions and scenarios can be run with options from the command line:

bash

node ./scenarios/<fileName> --option1 --option2

util.parseArgs is used to configure these options. For the specific options available to each script, see the parseArgs usage for that file.

Tests

⚠ Running tests might result in charges to your AWS account.

To find instructions for running these tests, see the README in the javascriptv3 folder.

Additional resources

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