Hey everyone! I just started having a look into Prefect and so far I am very impressed. I am just a little bit confused right now about the scheduling part and what is possible just with Prefect Core, Frankly, I am quite new to workflow tools as a whole so I don't fully understand what the differences in scheduling functionality between the Core and Cloud versions are (and whether scheduling even can be performed in a useful manner with Prefect Core). Can anybody explain and maybe provide a use case for which you would need the functionality of the Cloud version?

Hi @Hendrik Pauthner — Prefect Core can use all the same schedules as Prefect Cloud. When you call

flow.run()

on a flow with a schedule, it will run on schedule, in that Python process. The biggest difference in Cloud is that it provides a resilient stateful layer on top of Prefect Core, so you don’t need that single process running.

makes perfectly sense, thanks for the explanation!