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I had a quick look at something I've got (not written by me) and it looks like you create an EventBridge rule with a schedule expression and create an EventBridge target (which can include an ECS task: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/events/put-...).

You can use the aws_appautoscaling_scheduled_action terraform resource to create a scheduled scaling policy action to mimic a scheduled Fargate container fire-up, e.g. from zero Fargate container instances to one or however many are required, and then back down to zero.

I would look into AWS Batch - it works pretty well for running diverse jobs. I have a few jobs that are triggered by S3 uploads that run for 1-30 minutes, and other jobs that run for ~hours. All on Fargate