Ask HN: Best free option for cron-like scraping process

Hello HN!

I'm looking for a cloud service that would allow me to launch a process every few minutes. This process would check something on a site (probably a few https requests) and then email me if certain conditions are met.

This would be for something personal so I'm looking for a free service if possible.

I'm looking at AWS lambda as an option as I'm fairly familiar with EC2 and lightsail...but I'd prefer a service that would either not ask for a credit card, or have some hard limits for spending. AWS horror stories are awful...

I already do this with a python script locally on my PC, but I'm looking to have this run on somebody else's computer (aka "the cloud"). I'm willing to learn any language or technology.

Thanks!!!

Why do you need the cloud? It doesn't look like a very demanding application... just get a cheap vps from https://www.lowendstock.com/ ? The ones I got for $5-10 per year are pretty reliable.