CLI cron tasks on AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda lets us run console commands as cron tasks using the schedule
event:
functions:
cron:
handler: bin/console # or 'artisan' for Laravel
runtime: php-81-console
events:
- schedule:
rate: rate(1 hour)
input: '"list --verbose"'
The example above will run the bin/console list --verbose
command every hour in AWS Lambda.
Note that the command is a double quoted string: '"command"'
.
Why? The input
value needs to be valid JSON, which means that it needs to be a JSON string, stored in a YAML string.
Read more about the schedule
feature in the Serverless documentation.
If you are interested in cron functions instead, read the Cron functions documentation.