diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk/lib/api/evaluate-cloudformation-template.ts b/packages/aws-cdk/lib/api/evaluate-cloudformation-template.ts
index 4c82399bdf7cc..f6d51969af5d5 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk/lib/api/evaluate-cloudformation-template.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk/lib/api/evaluate-cloudformation-template.ts
@@ -300,7 +300,12 @@ export class EvaluateCloudFormationTemplate {
   }
 
   private getResourceTypeArnPartOfResource(resource: AWS.CloudFormation.StackResourceSummary): string {
-    return resource.ResourceType.split('::')[2].toLowerCase();
+    const resourceType = resource.ResourceType;
+    const specialCaseResourceType = RESOURCE_TYPE_SPECIAL_NAMES[resourceType]?.resourceType;
+    return specialCaseResourceType
+      ? specialCaseResourceType
+      // this is the default case
+      : resourceType.split('::')[2].toLowerCase();
   }
 }
 
@@ -313,12 +318,30 @@ interface ArnParts {
   readonly resourceName: string;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Usually, we deduce the names of the service and the resource type used to format the ARN from the CloudFormation resource type.
+ * For a CFN type like AWS::Service::ResourceType, the second segment becomes the service name, and the third the resource type
+ * (after converting both of them to lowercase).
+ * However, some resource types break this simple convention, and we need to special-case them.
+ * This map is for storing those cases.
+ */
+const RESOURCE_TYPE_SPECIAL_NAMES: { [type: string]: { resourceType: string } } = {
+  'AWS::Events::EventBus': {
+    resourceType: 'event-bus',
+  },
+};
+
 const RESOURCE_TYPE_ATTRIBUTES_FORMATS: { [type: string]: { [attribute: string]: (parts: ArnParts) => string } } = {
   'AWS::IAM::Role': { Arn: iamArnFmt },
   'AWS::IAM::User': { Arn: iamArnFmt },
   'AWS::IAM::Group': { Arn: iamArnFmt },
   'AWS::S3::Bucket': { Arn: s3ArnFmt },
   'AWS::Lambda::Function': { Arn: stdColonResourceArnFmt },
+  'AWS::Events::EventBus': {
+    Arn: stdSlashResourceArnFmt,
+    // the name attribute of the EventBus is the same as the Ref
+    Name: parts => parts.resourceName,
+  },
 };
 
 function iamArnFmt(parts: ArnParts): string {
@@ -336,6 +359,11 @@ function stdColonResourceArnFmt(parts: ArnParts): string {
   return `arn:${parts.partition}:${parts.service}:${parts.region}:${parts.account}:${parts.resourceType}:${parts.resourceName}`;
 }
 
+function stdSlashResourceArnFmt(parts: ArnParts): string {
+  // this is a standard format for ARNs like: arn:aws:service:region:account:resourceType/resourceName
+  return `arn:${parts.partition}:${parts.service}:${parts.region}:${parts.account}:${parts.resourceType}/${parts.resourceName}`;
+}
+
 interface Intrinsic {
   readonly name: string;
   readonly args: any;
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk/test/api/hotswap/state-machine-hotswap-deployments.test.ts b/packages/aws-cdk/test/api/hotswap/state-machine-hotswap-deployments.test.ts
index 94467c5ac123d..1822258187f53 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk/test/api/hotswap/state-machine-hotswap-deployments.test.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk/test/api/hotswap/state-machine-hotswap-deployments.test.ts
@@ -482,3 +482,79 @@ test("will not perform a hotswap deployment if it doesn't know how to handle a s
     hotswapMockSdkProvider.tryHotswapDeployment(cdkStackArtifact),
   ).rejects.toThrow("We don't support the 'UnknownAttribute' attribute of the 'AWS::S3::Bucket' resource. This is a CDK limitation. Please report it at https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/new/choose");
 });
+
+test('knows how to handle attributes of the AWS::Events::EventBus resource', async () => {
+  // GIVEN
+  setup.setCurrentCfnStackTemplate({
+    Resources: {
+      EventBus: {
+        Type: 'AWS::Events::EventBus',
+        Properties: {
+          Name: 'my-event-bus',
+        },
+      },
+      Machine: {
+        Type: 'AWS::StepFunctions::StateMachine',
+        Properties: {
+          DefinitionString: {
+            'Fn::Join': ['', [
+              '{"EventBus1Arn":"',
+              { 'Fn::GetAtt': ['EventBus', 'Arn'] },
+              '","EventBus1Name":"',
+              { 'Fn::GetAtt': ['EventBus', 'Name'] },
+              '","EventBus1Ref":"',
+              { Ref: 'EventBus' },
+              '"}',
+            ]],
+          },
+          StateMachineName: 'my-machine',
+        },
+      },
+    },
+  });
+  setup.pushStackResourceSummaries(
+    setup.stackSummaryOf('EventBus', 'AWS::Events::EventBus', 'my-event-bus'),
+  );
+  const cdkStackArtifact = setup.cdkStackArtifactOf({
+    template: {
+      Resources: {
+        EventBus: {
+          Type: 'AWS::Events::EventBus',
+          Properties: {
+            Name: 'my-event-bus',
+          },
+        },
+        Machine: {
+          Type: 'AWS::StepFunctions::StateMachine',
+          Properties: {
+            DefinitionString: {
+              'Fn::Join': ['', [
+                '{"EventBus2Arn":"',
+                { 'Fn::GetAtt': ['EventBus', 'Arn'] },
+                '","EventBus2Name":"',
+                { 'Fn::GetAtt': ['EventBus', 'Name'] },
+                '","EventBus2Ref":"',
+                { Ref: 'EventBus' },
+                '"}',
+              ]],
+            },
+            StateMachineName: 'my-machine',
+          },
+        },
+      },
+    },
+  });
+
+  // THEN
+  const result = await hotswapMockSdkProvider.tryHotswapDeployment(cdkStackArtifact);
+
+  expect(result).not.toBeUndefined();
+  expect(mockUpdateMachineDefinition).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+    stateMachineArn: 'arn:aws:states:here:123456789012:stateMachine:my-machine',
+    definition: JSON.stringify({
+      EventBus2Arn: 'arn:aws:events:here:123456789012:event-bus/my-event-bus',
+      EventBus2Name: 'my-event-bus',
+      EventBus2Ref: 'my-event-bus',
+    }),
+  });
+});