How to schedule a AWS CLI script on Windows EC2 instance

Question

I have a Windows EC2 instance in place. I cannot delete it every day since we have multiple tools installed like accessing Postgress RDS via Dbeaver. Now, we have an activity of deleting a few S3 folders. So using the Mobaxterm tool, I can delete it via AWS CLI commands.

However, I am unable to schedule this script which runs once daily in the morning. I explored a few posts which are not relevant to my problem. There, the user is trying to launch > run script > delete instance which I don't want to do.

What can be done in my case?

[schedule a task in windows](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7195503/setting-up-a-cron-job-in-windows) — baduker, Jun 02 '22 at 07:59
I will try in a couple of days and will accept your answer @Paolo. Upvoted for now. — whatsinthename, Jun 04 '22 at 10:01

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 02 '22 at 10:20

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At least two options come to mind:

Use Windows task scheduler to create a task that will run your script daily directly on the instance
Use AWS Systems Manager State Manager to run a custom document that will execute your script remotely on a daily basis

I would recommend the second option because you would be able to reuse it for other instances if needed.

answered Jun 02 '22 at 10:20

Paolo

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Will I be able to run this script on the MobaXterm tool after exploring the second option? – whatsinthename Jun 02 '22 at 10:33
@whatsinthename why do you need to use that tool to run the script? – Paolo Jun 02 '22 at 12:20
I want to delete the S3 folders using the AWS CLI command. So how do I delete it? Where can I run my shell script? – whatsinthename Jun 02 '22 at 12:27
@whatsinthename did you even read my answer? – Paolo Jun 02 '22 at 15:23
Ohhh okay. Let me try that... – whatsinthename Jun 02 '22 at 15:59

How to schedule a AWS CLI script on Windows EC2 instance

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