Trying to execute my code every 12hours on the AWS lambda server

Question

I have to run my code every 12 hours. I wrote the following code, and I deployed it to AWS Lambda for the code to run every 12 hours. However, I see that the code does not run every 12 hours. Could you guys help me with this?

nodeCron.schedule("0 */12 * * *", async () => {
  let ids = ["5292865", "2676271", "5315840"];
  let filternames = ["Sales", "Engineering", ""];

  await initiateProcess(ids[0], filternames[0]);
  await initiateProcess(ids[1], filternames[1]);
  await initiateProcess(ids[2], filternames[2]);
});

Answer 1

AWS Lambda is an event-driven service. It runs your code in response to events. AWS Lambda functions can be configured to run up to 15 minutes per execution. They cannot run longer than that.

I would suggest you use Amazon EventBridge to trigger your Lambda function to run on a 12-hour schedule:

1. Create a Rule with a schedule to run every 12 hours
2. In this Rule, create a Target, which is your Lambda function.

Then, you will be able to see if it was executed properly or not, and Lambda logs will be available in CloudWatch Logs.