Installing CronTab on Amazon Linux 2023 EC2

Introduction: Hello! We encountered an issue while attempting to install crontab on Amazon Linux 2023 EC2 instances. Unfortunately, crontab is not available by default in these instances. This blog post will delve into the issue and provide a step-by-step workaround to successfully install crontab on Amazon Linux 2023 EC2 instances. Issue: During our investigation, we found that the ‘cronie’ package is intentionally not included in the Amazon Linux 2023 AMIs, as the same functionality, and even better, is provided by ‘systemd’. You can refer to the following issue opened with the Amazon Linux 2023 team: [<a href="https://github.com/amazonlinux/amazon-linux-2023/issues/300" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/amazonlinux/amazon-linux-2023/issues/300</a>] Workaround: In the meantime, installing the ‘cronie’ package as follows: <a href="https://jainsaket-1994.medium.com/installing-crontab-on-amazon-linux-2023-ec2-98cf2708b171">Click Here</a>