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Create Cron Jobs On AWS Lambda With Cloudwatch Event

Quick start aws-chalice

Create Cron Jobs on AWS Lambda with cloudwatch event

A very simple example of creating lambda function with cloudwatch event using aws-chalice. It provides an optional of how to create lambda function beyond aws-cdk (eg. python lamdbda cron)

Whatโ€™s In This Document

๐Ÿš€ Create new chalice project

โšก $ chalice new-project lambda-cron
โšก $ cd lambda-cron/
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๐Ÿš€ Create the functions in app.py

app,py

from datetime import datetime
from chalice import Chalice


app = Chalice(app_name='lambda-cron')
app.debug = True


#@app.schedule('cron(0 18 ? * MON-FRI *)')
@app.schedule('cron(* * ? * * *)')
def cron_tab(event):
    print(f"{datetime.now()}: I'm running!")
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๐Ÿš€ Config lambda fuction attributes

  • Here is just config lambda timeout
โšก $ cat .chalice/config.json 
{ 
  "version": "2.0",
  "app_name": "lambda-cron",
  "stages": {
    "dev": {
      "lambda_timeout": 300
    }
  } 
}
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๐Ÿš€ Deploy chalice to create cloudwatch event which trigger lambda cron

โšก $ chalice deploy
Creating deployment package.
Creating IAM role: lambda-cron-dev
Creating lambda function: lambda-cron-dev-cron_tab
Resources deployed:
  - Lambda ARN: arn:aws:lambda:ap-northeast-2:111111111111:function:lambda-cron-dev-cron_tab
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  • Note: Chalice auto create IAM role lambda-cron-dev base on the need of the function, we can disable by adding "manage_iam_role": false but you must provide the IAM ARN in config.json eg. "iam_role_arn": "arn:aws:iam::111111111111:role/lambda-cron-dev"

๐Ÿš€ Check result

  • Lambda function with Event Bridge trigger

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  • Cloudwatch event rule

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  • Cloudwatch log group

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๐Ÿš€ Clean up

โšก $ chalice delete
Deleting function: arn:aws:lambda:ap-northeast-2:111111111111:function:lambda-cron-dev-cron_tab
Deleting IAM role: lambda-cron-dev
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