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DescribeJob - AWS Snowball

DescribeJob

Important

End of support notice: On November 12, 2024, AWS will discontinue previous generation AWS Snowball devices, and both Snowcone devices (HDD and SDD). We will continue to support existing customers using these end-of-life devices until November 12, 2025. The latest generation AWS Snowball devices are available for all customers. For more information, visit this blog post.

Returns information about a specific job including shipping information, job status, and other important metadata.

Request Syntax

{ "JobId": "string" }

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

JobId

The automatically generated ID for a job, for example JID123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426655440000.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 39.

Pattern: (M|J)ID[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

{ "JobMetadata": { "AddressId": "string", "ClusterId": "string", "CreationDate": number, "DataTransferProgress": { "BytesTransferred": number, "ObjectsTransferred": number, "TotalBytes": number, "TotalObjects": number }, "Description": "string", "DeviceConfiguration": { "SnowconeDeviceConfiguration": { "WirelessConnection": { "IsWifiEnabled": boolean } } }, "ForwardingAddressId": "string", "ImpactLevel": "string", "JobId": "string", "JobLogInfo": { "JobCompletionReportURI": "string", "JobFailureLogURI": "string", "JobSuccessLogURI": "string" }, "JobState": "string", "JobType": "string", "KmsKeyARN": "string", "LongTermPricingId": "string", "Notification": { "DevicePickupSnsTopicARN": "string", "JobStatesToNotify": [ "string" ], "NotifyAll": boolean, "SnsTopicARN": "string" }, "OnDeviceServiceConfiguration": { "EKSOnDeviceService": { "EKSAnywhereVersion": "string", "KubernetesVersion": "string" }, "NFSOnDeviceService": { "StorageLimit": number, "StorageUnit": "string" }, "S3OnDeviceService": { "FaultTolerance": number, "ServiceSize": number, "StorageLimit": number, "StorageUnit": "string" }, "TGWOnDeviceService": { "StorageLimit": number, "StorageUnit": "string" } }, "PickupDetails": { "DevicePickupId": "string", "Email": "string", "IdentificationExpirationDate": number, "IdentificationIssuingOrg": "string", "IdentificationNumber": "string", "Name": "string", "PhoneNumber": "string" }, "RemoteManagement": "string", "Resources": { "Ec2AmiResources": [ { "AmiId": "string", "SnowballAmiId": "string" } ], "LambdaResources": [ { "EventTriggers": [ { "EventResourceARN": "string" } ], "LambdaArn": "string" } ], "S3Resources": [ { "BucketArn": "string", "KeyRange": { "BeginMarker": "string", "EndMarker": "string" }, "TargetOnDeviceServices": [ { "ServiceName": "string", "TransferOption": "string" } ] } ] }, "RoleARN": "string", "ShippingDetails": { "InboundShipment": { "Status": "string", "TrackingNumber": "string" }, "OutboundShipment": { "Status": "string", "TrackingNumber": "string" }, "ShippingOption": "string" }, "SnowballCapacityPreference": "string", "SnowballId": "string", "SnowballType": "string", "TaxDocuments": { "IND": { "GSTIN": "string" } } }, "SubJobMetadata": [ { "AddressId": "string", "ClusterId": "string", "CreationDate": number, "DataTransferProgress": { "BytesTransferred": number, "ObjectsTransferred": number, "TotalBytes": number, "TotalObjects": number }, "Description": "string", "DeviceConfiguration": { "SnowconeDeviceConfiguration": { "WirelessConnection": { "IsWifiEnabled": boolean } } }, "ForwardingAddressId": "string", "ImpactLevel": "string", "JobId": "string", "JobLogInfo": { "JobCompletionReportURI": "string", "JobFailureLogURI": "string", "JobSuccessLogURI": "string" }, "JobState": "string", "JobType": "string", "KmsKeyARN": "string", "LongTermPricingId": "string", "Notification": { "DevicePickupSnsTopicARN": "string", "JobStatesToNotify": [ "string" ], "NotifyAll": boolean, "SnsTopicARN": "string" }, "OnDeviceServiceConfiguration": { "EKSOnDeviceService": { "EKSAnywhereVersion": "string", "KubernetesVersion": "string" }, "NFSOnDeviceService": { "StorageLimit": number, "StorageUnit": "string" }, "S3OnDeviceService": { "FaultTolerance": number, "ServiceSize": number, "StorageLimit": number, "StorageUnit": "string" }, "TGWOnDeviceService": { "StorageLimit": number, "StorageUnit": "string" } }, "PickupDetails": { "DevicePickupId": "string", "Email": "string", "IdentificationExpirationDate": number, "IdentificationIssuingOrg": "string", "IdentificationNumber": "string", "Name": "string", "PhoneNumber": "string" }, "RemoteManagement": "string", "Resources": { "Ec2AmiResources": [ { "AmiId": "string", "SnowballAmiId": "string" } ], "LambdaResources": [ { "EventTriggers": [ { "EventResourceARN": "string" } ], "LambdaArn": "string" } ], "S3Resources": [ { "BucketArn": "string", "KeyRange": { "BeginMarker": "string", "EndMarker": "string" }, "TargetOnDeviceServices": [ { "ServiceName": "string", "TransferOption": "string" } ] } ] }, "RoleARN": "string", "ShippingDetails": { "InboundShipment": { "Status": "string", "TrackingNumber": "string" }, "OutboundShipment": { "Status": "string", "TrackingNumber": "string" }, "ShippingOption": "string" }, "SnowballCapacityPreference": "string", "SnowballId": "string", "SnowballType": "string", "TaxDocuments": { "IND": { "GSTIN": "string" } } } ] }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

JobMetadata

Information about a specific job, including shipping information, job status, and other important metadata.

Type: JobMetadata object

SubJobMetadata

Information about a specific job part (in the case of an export job), including shipping information, job status, and other important metadata.

Type: Array of JobMetadata objects

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

InvalidResourceException

The specified resource can't be found. Check the information you provided in your last request, and try again.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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