Azure's service bus queue has a much better solution for this: you can schedule an item to appear in the queue at any future time. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.servic...

Like Amazon's new SQS Lambda trigger you can then schedule a serverless function that's triggered by new items in the queue to have arbitrary scheduling of tasks.

Using their Python API it's pretty nice:

    from datetime import datetime, timedelta
    from azure.servicebus import ServiceBusService, Message

    sbs = ServiceBusService('task-queue',  shared_access_key_name=key_name, shared_access_key_value=key_value)

    d = datetime.utcnow() + timedelta(minutes=1)
    task = {"some": "object"}

    sbs.send_queue_message(
        "task-queue", 
        Message(
            task, 
            broker_properties={'ScheduledEnqueueTimeUtc': d}
        )
    )