AWS EventBridge Cron Syntax

Key Features

• 6-field cron (includes year)
• Uses ? for day-of-week/day-of-month
• rate() expressions
• Flexible time windows

Example Configuration

# Every day at noon UTC
cron(0 12 * * ? *)

# Every Monday at 9 AM
cron(0 9 ? * MON *)

# Every 5 minutes
rate(5 minutes)

Official Documentation

AWS EventBridge Scheduling Documentation →

Monitoring AWS EventBridge Jobs

Add heartbeat monitoring to your AWS EventBridge jobs. Just add a ping at the end of your job:

curl -fsS https://cronsignal.io/ping/YOUR_CHECK_ID