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 - Org vs Repo level. You can configure the module to connect the runners in GitHub on an org level and share the runners in your org, or set the runners on repo level and the module will install the runner to the repo. There can be multiple repos but runners are not shared between repos.
 - Multi-Runner module. This modules allows you to create multiple runner configurations with a single webhook and single GitHub App to simplify deployment of different types of runners. Check the detailed module [documentation](modules/public/multi-runner.md) for more information or checkout the [multi-runner example](examples/multi-runner.md).
-- Workflow job event. You can configure the webhook in GitHub to send workflow job events to the webhook. Workflow job events were introduced by GitHub in September 2021 and are designed to support scalable runners. We advise using the workflow job event when possible.
+- Webhook mode, the module can be deployed in the mode `direct` and `eventbridge`. The `direct` mode is the default and will directly distribute to SQS for the scale-up lambda. The `eventbridge` mode will publish the event to an event bus with a target rule the events are sent to a dispatch lambda. The dispatch lambda will send the event to the SQS queue. The `eventbridge` mode is useful when you want to have more control over the events and potentially filter them. The `eventbridge` mode is disabled by default. We expect thhe `eventbridge` mode will be the future direction to build a data lake, build metrics, acto on `workflow_job` job started events, etc.
 - Linux vs Windows. You can configure the OS types linux and win. Linux will be used by default.
 - Re-use vs Ephemeral. By default runners are re-used, until detected idle. Once idle they will be removed from the pool. To improve security we are introducing ephemeral runners. Those runners are only used for one job. Ephemeral runners only work in combination with the workflow job event. For ephemeral runners the lambda requests a JIT (just in time) configuration via the GitHub API to register the runner. [JIT configuration](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/security-hardening-for-github-actions#using-just-in-time-runners) is limited to ephemeral runners (and currently not supported by GHES). For non-ephemeral runners, a registration token is always requested. In both cases the configuration is made available to the instance via the same SSM parameter. To disable JIT configuration for ephemeral runners set `enable_jit_config` to `false`. We also suggest using a pre-build AMI to improve the start time of jobs for ephemeral runners.
 - Job retry (**Beta**). By default the scale-up lambda will discard the message when it is handled. Meaning in the ephemeral use-case an instance is created. The created runner will ask GitHub for a job, no guarantee it will run the job for which it was scaling. Result could be that with small system hick-up the job is keeping waiting for a runner. Enable a pool (org runners) is one option to avoid this problem. Another option is to enable the job retry function. Which will retry the job after a delay for a configured number of times.

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 ### Webhook
 
-The moment a GitHub action workflow requiring a `self-hosted` runner is triggered, GitHub will try to find a runner which can execute the workload. See [additional notes](additional_notes.md) for how the selection is made. This module reacts to GitHub's [`workflow_job` event](https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/developers/webhooks-and-events/webhook-events-and-payloads#workflow_job) for the triggered workflow and creates a new runner if necessary.
+The moment a GitHub action workflow requiring a `self-hosted` runner is triggered, GitHub will try to find a runner which can execute the workload. See [additional notes](additional_notes.md) for how the selection is made. The module can be deployed in two modes. One mode called `direct`, after accepting the [`workflow_job` event](https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/developers/webhooks-and-events/webhook-events-and-payloads#workflow_job) event the module will dispatch the event to a SQS queue on which the scale-up function will act. The second mode, `eventbridge` will funnel events via the AWS EventBridge. the EventBridge enables act on other events then only the `workflow_job` event with status `queued`. besides that the EventBridge suppors replay functionality. For futurue exenstions to act on events or create a data lake we will relay on the EventBridge.
 
 For receiving the `workflow_job` event by the webhook (lambda), a webhook needs to be created in GitHub. The same app as for API calls can be used to create the webhook. Or a dedicated webhook can be defined.