<ul><li>Set up a free-tier AWS EC2 instance as a baseline development environment before automating report generation with cron jobs.</li><li>Steps to set up a free-tier EC2 instance include creating an AWS account, launching an EC2 instance, configuring storage and security groups, and accessing the instance.</li><li>Automate report execution by preparing your report script, setting up a cron job to schedule the script's execution, defining the cron schedule and command, saving and verifying the cron job, and monitoring and troubleshooting any issues.</li><li>Ensure your report script runs correctly, set execution permissions, schedule with crontab, redirect output to logs for monitoring, verify the cron job, and troubleshoot if needed.</li></ul>

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