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If you get these in your syslog:

Dec 19 05:07:01 ip-10-0-2-194 cron[9036]: (*system*aws-crawnchers) WRONG FILE OWNER (/etc/cron.d/some-cronjob)
Dec 19 05:08:01 ip-10-0-2-194 cron[9036]: (*system*web-server) INSECURE MODE (group/other writable) (/etc/cron.d/some-cronjob)

You need to:

$ chown root:root /etc/cron.d/some-cronjob
$ chmod 644 /etc/cron.d/some-cronjob
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