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What's the best way to run a python script daily?

I have a python script that connects to Redshift, executes a series of SQL commands, and generates a new derived table.

But for the life of me, I can't figure out a way to have it automatically run every day.

I've tried AWS Data Pipeline but my shell script won't run the first copy statement. I can't get Lambda or Glue to work because my company's IAM policies are restrictive. Airflow seems like overkill to just run a single python script daily.

Any suggestions for services to look into?

Solution

  • use a cron job on an ec2 instance or set up a scheduled event to invoke your aws python lambda function http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/with-scheduled-events.html