How Vercel Shipped Cron Jobs in 2 Months Using Amazon EventBridge Scheduler

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https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ Vercel implemented Cron Jobs using Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, enabling their customers to create, manage, and run scheduled tasks at scale. The adoption of this feature was rapid, reaching over 7 million weekly cron invocations within a few months of release.

A cron job is a scheduled task that automates running specific commands or scripts at predetermined intervals or fixed times.

That’s where https://www.linkedin.com/in/vvoyer/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-schneider-79043021a/ joined forces to build a prototype cron job feature for the Vercel platform.

Vercel, in the backend, uses EventBridge Scheduler and creates a new schedule when a new cron job is created.

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