I was not successful setting up a Django server in an AWS Worker Environment, so I set up a Flask server instead. This guide assumes that you have a web server running in another environment, and that you’ve configured an SQS queue to enqueue jobs for your worker. We obviate the need for Celery by using a cron.yaml file on the Flask worker that can be used to define periodic tasks.

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