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AWS Lambdas could be used for this, you can trigger them on a time schedule using an event bridge.

Using their Python library called chalice was really easy to make cron style lambdas in Python in my experience. https://github.com/aws/chalice

what happens if the processing takes longer than 30s?

The limit is now 30x that :)

Lambdas can run for 15 minutes