I'd like to pass event data from Amazon EventBridge directly into an AWS Fargate task. However, it doesn't seem like this is currently possible.
As a work-around, I've inserted an extra resource in between AWS Fargate and EventBridge. AWS Step Functions allows you to specify ContainerOverrides, in which the Environment property allows you to configure environment variables that will be passed into the Fargate task, from the EventBridge event.
Unfortunately, this workaround increases the solution complexity and cost unnecessarily.
Question: Is there a way to pass event data from EventBridge directly into an AWS Fargate (ECS) task, that I am simply unaware of?
There's no current direct invocation between EventBridge and Fargate. You can find the list of targets supported at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eventbridge-targets.html
The workarounds is to use an intermediary that supports calling fargate (like step-functions) or send the message to compute (like lambda [the irony]) before sending it downstream.