Scheduling A Job on AWS EC2

Question

I have a website running on AWS EC2. I need to create a nightly job that generates a sitemap file and uploads the files to the various browsers. I\'m looking for a utility o

Answer 1

AWS DataPipeline

You can use AWS Data Pipeline to schedule a task with a given period. The action can be any command when you configure your Pipeline with the ShellCommandActivity.

You can even use your existing EC2 instance to run the command: Setup Task Runner on your EC2 instance and set the workerGroup field when setting the ShellCommandActivity (doc) on your DataPipeline:

{
 "pipelineId": "df-0937003356ZJEXAMPLE",
 "pipelineObjects": [
    {
      "id": "Schedule",
      "name": "Schedule",
      "fields": [
        { "key": "startDateTime", "stringValue": "2012-12-12T00:00:00" }, 
        { "key": "type", "stringValue": "Schedule" }, 
        { "key": "period", "stringValue": "1 hour" }, 
        { "key": "endDateTime", "stringValue": "2012-12-21T18:00:00"  }
       ]
     }, {
      "id": "DoSomething",
      "name": "DoSomething",
      "fields": [
        { "key": "type", "stringValue": "ShellCommandActivity" },
        { "key": "command", "stringValue": "echo hello" },
        { "key": "schedule", "refValue": "Schedule" },
        { "key": "workerGroup", "stringValue": "yourWorkerGroup" }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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Limits: Minimum scheduling interval is 15 minutes.
Pricing: About $1.00 per month.