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Scheduled Events Trigger

With the power of Amazon CloudWatch Events, you can configure your AWS Lambda functions to be invoked on a regular schedule thanks to the schedule event functionality in Amazon CloudWatch Events. You can configure the schedule by hours, days, or weeks, or you can specify a cron expression as well. The following page has more details about Scheduled Event syntax in Amazon CloudWatch Events: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/ScheduledEvents.html

You can find an example use case at Using AWS Lambda with Scheduled Events.

An example Scheduled Event would look like this:

{ "account": "55334567897052", "region": "us-west-2", "detail": {}, "detail-type": "Scheduled Event for AWS Lambda", "source": ...