# Interacting with your EMR Serverless application on the AWS CLI
<a name="applications-cli"></a>

From the AWS CLI, create, describe, and delete individual applications. You can also list all of your applications so that access them at a glance. This section describes how to perform these actions. For more application operations, such as starting, stopping, and application updates, refer to the [EMR Serverless API Reference](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr-serverless/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html). For examples of how to use the EMR Serverless API using the AWS SDK for Java, refer to [Java examples](https://github.com/aws-samples/emr-serverless-samples/tree/main/examples/java-api) in our GitHub repository. For examples of how to use the EMR Serverless API using the AWS SDK for Python (Boto), refer to [Python examples](https://github.com/aws-samples/emr-serverless-samples/tree/main/examples/python-api) in our GitHub repository.

To create an application, use `create-application`. You must specify `SPARK` or `HIVE` as the application `type`. This command returns the application’s ARN, name, and ID.

```
aws emr-serverless create-application \
--name my-application-name \
--type 'application-type' \
--release-label release-version
```

To describe an application, use `get-application` and provide its `application-id`. This command returns the state and capacity-related configurations for your application.

```
aws emr-serverless get-application \
--application-id application-id
```

To list all of your applications, call `list-applications`. This command returns the same properties as `get-application` but includes all of your applications.

```
aws emr-serverless list-applications
```

To delete your application, call `delete-application` and supply your `application-id`.

```
aws emr-serverless delete-application \
--application-id application-id
```