How to create a Scheduled Task in Alibaba Cloud? - alibaba-cloud

What if I want to run some tasks while some scaling activity happens like scaling up or scaling down.
I see that we have an option of Scheduled tasks. how to create one using the Alibaba cloud console?

The steps to creating a schedule task is the following:
Click on Scheduled Tasks under Auto-trigger task management, that will bring the page where you can create schedule task
Click Create Scheduled Task, it a new dialog box should pop-up asking for the scheduled task's details
Fill in the fields as required and continue.
As per their documentation
You can create up to 20 scheduled tasks according to input parameters.
You can refer to the official documentation on creating a scheduled task on Alibaba Cloud here:
https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/25904.htm

You can create up to 20 scheduled tasks according to input parameters.
Procedure to schedule the tasks:
Click Scheduled task under Auto-trigger task management
Click Create a scheduled task
Enter the task name, execution time and recurrence
Select a scaling group and scaling rule to be triggered by the scheduled task and Click Submit.

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