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John Hamlett IV
John Hamlett IV

Reputation: 495

Best way to run scheduled code on AWS

What would be the best way to run a python script on the first of every month?

My situation is I want some data sent to a HipChat room, using the python api, on the first of every month from AWS. The data I want sent is in a text file in a S3 bucket

Upvotes: 0

Views: 740

Answers (2)

Nikhil Kulkarni
Nikhil Kulkarni

Reputation: 674

Create a Lambda function and use cloudWatch ==> Events ==> Rules and configure it

using: 1:AWS built in timers 2:Cron Expressions

In your case cron is better option

Upvotes: 0

Mark B
Mark B

Reputation: 200682

If your script can execute in under 5 minutes you could do this by creating a Python Lambda function and running it monthly via Lambda scheduled tasks. Running this once a month would stay well within the free Lambda usage limits, so your costs would be almost nothing.

If your script takes longer than 5 minutes to execute then you would probably need to schedule this as a cron job on an EC2 instance.

Upvotes: 2

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