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20 changes: 19 additions & 1 deletion src/pages/[platform]/build-a-backend/functions/scheduling-functions/index.mdx
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Expand Up @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ export const weeklyDigest = defineFunction({
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Function schedules are powered by [Amazon EventBridge rules](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-rules.html), and can be leveraged to address use cases such as:
Function schedules are powered by [Amazon EventBridge Scheduler](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/using-eventbridge-scheduler.html), and can be leveraged to address use cases such as:

- generating a "front page" of top-performing posts
- generating a weekly digest of top-performing posts
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]
})
```

## Timezone

Schedules can be set with a timezone.

```ts title="amplify/jobs/monthly-report/resource.ts"
import { defineFunction } from "@aws-amplify/backend";

export const monthlyReport = defineFunction({
name: "monthly-report",
schedule: [
// 1st day of every month at 0am with Asia/Tokyo
{ cron: "0 0 1 * ? *", timezone: "Asia/Tokyo" },
// the first of the month at midnight with America/New_York
{ rate: "every month", timezone: "America/New_York" },
]
});
```