# Jobs APIs
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The Amazon Location Jobs APIs provide programmatic access to bulk address validation capabilities through REST endpoints. All operations use standard AWS authentication.
+ **StartJob**: Initiates a new Amazon Location bulk processing job. For more information, See [StartJob](start-job-api.md).
+ **GetJob**: Retrieves comprehensive information about a specific job. For more information, See [GetJob](get-job-api.md).
+ **CancelJob**: Stops a running or pending job. For more information, See [CancelJob](cancel-job-api.md).
+ **ListJobs**: Retrieves a paginated list of jobs. For more information, See [ListJobs](list-jobs-api.md).

The following table presents business use cases that you can solve using Jobs API actions. Currently, `ValidateAddress` is the only supported action.


| **Business need** | **Job action** | 
| --- | --- | 
|  [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/jobs-api-reference.html) | `ValidateAddress` |