From spaghetti to streamlined: EventBridge Pipes has your back

Tip: Untangle your AWS integrations with EventBridge Pipes.

Integrations bring your applications to life, but each new point‑to‑point connection increases complexity as your organization adds services. What started as a quick Lambda script soon becomes an undocumented maze, eroding your team’s productivity and inflating maintenance costs.

If you’re an architect or developer tired of patching together fragile integration code, you’re not alone. Maybe you’ve tried using Amazon EventBridge but still found yourself writing too much “glue code” just to make things work. That’s where EventBridge Pipes comes in. It offers a modular, declarative way to build event-driven workflows without all the custom scripts.

In this newsletter, we’ll cover the core problem, why EventBridge leaves critical gaps, and how to build and operate resilient pipes without reinventing the wheel.

The spaghetti integration problem

Before you can untangle your workflows, you need to understand what's holding you back. Complexity grows exponentially when teams rely on point-to-point integrations — especially when adopting microservices, serverless functions, or distributed containers using bespoke scripts.

Imagine a scenario where every service talks directly to every other service it needs to interact with. This creates a tangled web of dependencies and introduces four critical challenges: