A database cron job is a process for scheduling a procedure or command on your database to automate repetitive tasks. In our case, we needed to bulk delete a huge set of records, and cron jobs came in handy.

By default, cron jobs are disabled on PostgreSQL RDS instances, so to use them on our database we need to enable them on Amazon Web Services (AWS) RDS console. Here’s how:

https://coletiv.com/blog/enabling-postgreSQL-cron-jobs-on-AWS-RDS/