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The easiest way to run cron jobs on AWS
- wakaflockafliz 11y agoAre you looking for feedback? If so, here is mine: --- Forgive me, but this doesn't look easy. Tons of JSON in bash.. not fun. And no pricing link. And no practical useful examples in the article.
- thenrich99 11y agoThanks for the feedback! We support JSON in the CLI so users can access the response data with tools like jq (http://stedolan.github.io/jq/ http://stedolan.github.io/jq/), but leaving off the json parameter will respond with human readable output. The pricing is regrettably not up yet, but we'll definitely work on some other examples. Cheers! Tim
- th0br0 11y agoUhm... there's something called Amazon Data Pipeline. They offer scheduled events and you can output Alarms to SNS...
- nivertech 11y agoI think you need to run your own instance for Amazon Data Pipeline. If I need to run my own instance - I as well may use the standard cron.
- nolite 11y agoYou don't, but Datapipeline is no less, a royal pain in the ass to use..
- thenrich99 11y agoAmazon Data Pipeline and Cronally solve different problems. ADP is a complex service designed to transport and process data between AWS products in a time-sensitive manner. Minimum intervals of 15 minutes and the inability to run jobs on a set of existing machines (i.e. running a shell command pipeline requires a separate instance launched for each execution) doesn't support a number of use-cases. Cronally is a simple platform that augments an existing AWS cluster by allowing those same machines (or others) to perform work, while handling locks transparently and supporting resolution down to the minute.