Hello. I see the prefect.io website mentions event-based workflows, but I can't find much in the documentation about it. I recall some blog post by prefect staff at one point which described an attempt at event-driven flows by making use of AWS and/or some other external system, however, the text on the website seems to suggest there is now an out-of-the-box feature for this within prefect. Is this correct? We have a highly event-driven infrastructure so this is a highly sought-after feature for us.

Hey @Oscar Krantz! You can create event-based workflows with the Automations feature in Prefect Cloud. Automations allow you to define triggers and actions that define what to do when something happens. One of the available actions is to run a deployment that allows you to kick off a workflow based on an event captured by Prefect Cloud. For external systems, we are working on enabling users to create webhooks that allow Prefect Cloud to perform actions triggered by events in systems external to Prefect Cloud.

We’re currently building a bunch in this space as well, including webhooks to ingest events and being able to specify trigger criteria on deployments. Would you be open to a brief user interview? I’ll DM you.