Some Wordpress/Woocommerce sites run better when the WP Cron system is invoked by a cron job instead of running at the end of requests. It is common for WP sites to have a crontab entry (or similar web-based scheduler) such as this:
* * * * * cd /path/to/public_html && /usr/local/bin/wp cron event run --due-now > /dev/null 2>&1

Also, besides the WP Cron system, occasional plugin developers have odd cronjobs that should be scheduled as well.

As of right now the support group has told me that the only way to schedule crons is to use a 3rd party cron system outside of Autonomous, which is a bummer.