Schedule recurring Amazon Marketing Cloud queries with the workflowSchedules API
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Steps
Authenticate using standard Amazon Ads API OAuth2/LWA headers, since AMC APIs are now unified under the main Amazon Ads API.
Create a reusable workflow definition (SQL query plus config) via the workflows resource for your AMC instance.
To run it once, POST to /amc/reporting/{instanceId}/workflowExecutions referencing the saved workflow or an ad-hoc inline query.
To automate it, create a separate workflowSchedules resource attached to the saved workflow with an interval, day-of-week, or start-time configuration.
Always include the AMC instanceId as a path parameter — it's a distinct identifier from your advertiser or profile ID.
Known gotchas
instanceId is a separately provisioned AMC-instance identifier — reusing an advertiser or profile ID in its place will fail.
Scheduling and one-off execution are genuinely different resources (workflowSchedules vs. workflowExecutions); creating a workflow does not automatically make it recurring.
Exact request/response field names for workflow definitions vary by AMC instance configuration — confirm the current schema against your own instance before hardcoding field names.
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