Uhm... there's something called Amazon Data Pipeline. They offer scheduled events and you can output Alarms to SNS...

Amazon 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.

I 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.

You don't, but Datapipeline is no less, a royal pain in the ass to use..

Are you looking for feedback? If so, here is mine:

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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.

Thanks 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/), 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