aws-events: no way to set Id on Rule Target
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Description
### Describe the bug
The API https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/APIReference/API_PutTargets.html#API_PutTargets_RequestSyntax allows setting an `Id` value for a rule target. However, CDK does not appear to have a way to set this value, instead using values like `Target0`. (Having imported into CDK some infrastructure that had been created with the API, those resources now show as "drifted".)
### Regression Issue
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### Last Known Working CDK Library Version
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### Expected Behavior
Allow defining the `Id` of these resources.
### Current Behavior
No way to define the `Id`.
### Reproduction Steps
Try to set the `Id` of a rule target.
### Possible Solution
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### Additional Information/Context
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### AWS CDK Library version (aws-cdk-lib)
2.233.0
### AWS CDK CLI version
2.1100.3
### Node.js Version
24
### OS
MacOS
### Language
TypeScript
### Language Version
TypeScript (5.9.3)
### Other information
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Contributor guide
Research direction
The issue points to the aws-events rule-target implementation and the AWS EventBridge PutTargets API; start by tracing how target IDs are synthesized. Completion means an explicit target Id can be defined and the synthesized or deployed resource uses that value rather than a generated Target0-style value, avoiding drift.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws, typescript
- Domain
- cloud, infrastructure
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100