title: What defines a "built-in target" for AWS CloudWatch Events?
body: <p>In CloudWatch Events' <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatchEvents/latest/APIReference/API_Target.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">documentation</a> as well as initial <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cloudwatch-events-track-and-respond-to-changes-to-your-aws-resources/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">announcement</a>, there are several possible targets to forward events to, including Lambdas, Kinesis Streams, SNS topics, and <strong>built-in targets</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>What is a built-in target, exactly? In the Console I can see options for EC2 actions, as well as CodeDeploy, but it doesn't make sense why they don't just mention those by name like the others.</p>