Google Cloud's fully managed cron job scheduler for automating tasks. Like having a reliable alarm clock that triggers your cloud operations on a schedule.
An e-commerce company uses Cloud Scheduler to run nightly inventory sync jobs that update product availability across all their systems.
All provide time-based triggers for running work on a schedule. GCP Cloud Scheduler is a managed cron service that triggers HTTP targets or publishes to Pub/Sub. AWS EventBridge Scheduler triggers many AWS targets directly (Lambda, SQS, Step Functions, etc.). Azure commonly uses Logic Apps Recurrence to run workflows on a schedule (often calling Functions, Webhooks, or other connectors). OCI Events supports scheduled rules that can invoke OCI services (often via Functions or Notifications).