--- title: Serverless cron job with AWS | daily.dev description: cron is a program that allows you to schedule tasks repeatedly at a specific time. With the cron job, we can specify that task to run at that specific time... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/serverless-cron-job-with-aws-b0qjlyerm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Serverless cron job with AWS | daily.dev og:description: cron is a program that allows you to schedule tasks repeatedly at a specific time. With the cron job, we can specify that task to run at that specific time... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/serverless-cron-job-with-aws-b0qjlyerm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/B0QjlyeRm.png og:image:alt: Serverless cron job with AWS og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Serverless cron job with AWS **[AWS Tip](https://daily.dev/sources/awstip)** · 3 min read · 15 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary cron is a program that allows you to schedule tasks repeatedly at a specific time. With the cron job, we can specify that task to run at that specific time repeatedly every day. There are even bridges (cloud watch event ) and lambda. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@loftwah** · 0 upvotes > This is such a powerful thing to have. --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#serverless](https://daily.dev/tags/serverless), [#aws-lambda](https://daily.dev/tags/aws-lambda) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/serverless-cron-job-with-aws-b0qjlyerm) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Serverless cron job with AWS","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/serverless-cron-job-with-aws-b0qjlyerm","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/serverless-cron-job-with-aws-b0qjlyerm"},"datePublished":"2022-11-24T15:00:04.930Z","dateModified":"2022-11-24T15:00:04.928Z","description":"cron is a program that allows you to schedule tasks repeatedly at a specific time. With the cron job, we can specify that task to run at that specific time...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3bbe7f5727cbe8cca262b6e4d0276f96","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3bbe7f5727cbe8cca262b6e4d0276f96","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"AWS Tip","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"AWS Tip","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/aea5725665d4494d8470f6c11612e774","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/awstip"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/serverless-cron-job-with-aws-b0qjlyerm","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":15},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"cloud,aws,serverless,aws-lambda","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"AWS Tip","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/awstip"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Serverless cron job with AWS"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/serverless-cron-job-with-aws-b0qjlyerm","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"This is such a powerful thing to have.","datePublished":"2022-11-27T23:52:06.235Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/B0QjlyeRm#c-M0awfrRQI","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Dean Lofts","url":"https://daily.dev/loftwah","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/19922556?v=4"}}]} ```