AWS EventBridge Scheduler
Event-driven task execution engine that operates at scale
- Vendor
- Amazon Web Services, Inc.
- Also known as
- aws-eventbridge-scheduler
Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is AWS EventBridge Scheduler?
A serverless service for triggering scheduled tasks and events across AWS infrastructure. Provides flexible scheduling options including cron expressions, fixed intervals, and one-time executions, with automatic timezone adjustments and customizable retry logic.
AWS EventBridge Scheduler pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Usage-based pricing: $1.00 per million invocations beyond the free tier of 14M per month
Scheduler
Pay per invocation
- invocations
- 14M/month
- Schedule tasks across 200+ AWS services
- Multiple scheduling formats (cron, fixed rate, one-time)
- Timezone-aware scheduling
- Configurable retry policies
- Serverless (no infrastructure management)
What AWS EventBridge Scheduler does
The capabilities that matter for cron scheduling, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Deployment
- Managed saas
- Cron expression support
- ✓
- Timezone aware scheduling
- ✓
- Job dependency chaining
- -
- Ha clustering
- -
- Retry on failure
- ✓
- Missed run alerting
- -
- Web UI dashboard
- -
- API first
- -
- Audit logging
- -
- RBAC
- -
- Open source
- -
- Pricing model
- Usage based
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (1)
Independently observed- AWS Services→•
Security & compliance
Independently observed- PCI-DSSactive
- HIPAA/HITECHactive
- FedRAMPactive
- GDPRactive
- FIPS 140-3active
- NIST 800-171active
AWS EventBridge Scheduler FAQ
Common questions about AWS EventBridge Scheduler, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is AWS EventBridge Scheduler?
A fully managed scheduling service that lets you configure and trigger millions of tasks and events across AWS services with customizable scheduling patterns, time zones, and retry policies, without managing infrastructure. It is indexed under Cron Scheduling.
Is AWS EventBridge Scheduler free?
AWS EventBridge Scheduler offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does AWS EventBridge Scheduler support?
AWS EventBridge Scheduler supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Can AWS EventBridge Scheduler be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for AWS EventBridge Scheduler, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
What security certifications does AWS EventBridge Scheduler have?
We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for AWS EventBridge Scheduler. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as AWS EventBridge Scheduler not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Where is AWS EventBridge Scheduler available?
AWS EventBridge Scheduler is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.
AWS EventBridge Scheduler alternatives
Other cron scheduling we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- CronitorMonitoring and alerting service for developers managing cron jobs, websites, APIs, and background systemshigh · 75%
- cron-job.orgCloud-hosted scheduling and execution of HTTP requests and scripts at custom intervals, completely free.low · 30%
- dkronA distributed job scheduler that runs cron jobs across clusters without single points of failurelow · 36%
- RundeckOpen-source platform for automating and executing operational procedureslow · 30%
- HangfireA background job processing framework for .NET applications that operates without requiring a separate Windows Service or external processlow · 28%
- QuartzOpen source library for scheduling Java application jobslow · 31%
Compare AWS EventBridge Scheduler
Side by side against other cron scheduling, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for AWS EventBridge Scheduler, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.05 | 5.3 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.2 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 35 | 0.09 | 3.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 66 | 0.04 | 2.5 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 58 | 0.03 | 1.8 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 64% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Deployment: managed-saas · Pricing model: usage-based · Retry on failure: Yes · Cron expression support: Yes · Timezone aware scheduling: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 200 | mediumsource · 2026-08-18 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 50% |
Pricing
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Fedramp | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Hipaa | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Pci | Yes | highsource · 2026-10-13 · 75% |
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
| Trust center | https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/?nc2=h_dsc_aa_cmp | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
| Certifications | PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-3, NIST 800-171 | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
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