An AWS Cloudwatch Event using cron syntax that triggers an SES email reminder
This function runs using the serverless schedule event. More information can be found in the documentation here.
You can use the schedule event with either rate or cron.
rate(value unit)
value - A positive number
unit - The unit of time. This can be any of the following: minute, minutes, hour, hours, day, days.
Example rate(3 days)
If you have questions about the rate syntax checkout the AWS docs
cron(Minutes Hours Day-of-month Month Day-of-week Year)
One important note is that if using either the day of month or the day of week you must fill the position of the other with a ?.
For more information read the documention for the AWS cron expression syntax here.
In order to deploy this code and follow along with what's happening you simply run:
serverless deploy -v That's it! Seriously! The -v will let you see the verbose output of what's happening behind the scenes.