Cron jobs are one of the things that have gotten harder, not easier, when moving to the cloud.

The motivation to automate recurring tasks is still strong in the software community, but while companies have been transitioning their infrastructure towards cloud environments, they’ve been falling behind on tooling for daily tasks. Previously, when companies hosted servers in their own data centers, scheduling a cron job to run on a spare machine was a 15-minute task. But with the move to the cloud, there are no longer any spare machines. Companies track infrastructure closely because the management of this infrastructure is now done automatically, and access to it is restricted, creating new barriers to automation in cloud environments.

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