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Is it possible to have cron job running on Amazon EC2 instance?

I'm currently working on scrapping tool for information analysis and I put a cron job on AWS EC2 instance (Ubuntu 14 TLS Server).

The cron job runs by executing Laravel artisan command.

Following is what I have entered in crontab -e.

0 20 * * * php /var/www/html/artisan data:get

But this doesn't run everyday and I found cron service has stopped for no reason.

Is it possible to have cron job on AWS Ec2 instance?

If not, what's the solution?

Solution

  • Yes, cron should just run on Amazon EC2 instances. Did you look at the answers to this question ? Cannot get cron to work on Amazon EC2?