Getting the Status of Your Jobs

You might like to know if the job is waiting to start, in progress, or completed. For some operations, such as CancelJob and UpdateJob, you might use GetStatus first because jobs cannot be canceled or updated if their status is completed.

GetStatus returns the status of a specified job. You specify a job using the job ID returned in the CreateJob response. Example job statuses are pending, completed, in progress, device error, and expired. For more information about statuses, go to GetStatus. You can only get the status of jobs you own.

To get the status of a job using the command line tool

Use the GetStatus command.

The following command returns the status of the job identified by JOBID.

> java -jar lib\AWSImportExportWebServiceTool-1.0.jar GetStatus JOBID 

To get the status of a job using REST

Submit a GetStatus request.

The following request returns the status of the job identified by JOBID.

POST / HTTP/1.1
content-type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=utf-8
host: https://importexport.amazonaws.com
content-length:189

Action=GetStatus&JobId=JOBID&JobType=Import&AWSAccessKeyId= 
&SignatureVersion=2&SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256&Version=2010-06-01 
&SignatureMethod=%2FVfkltRBOoSUi1sWxRzN8rw%3D

Amazon Import/Export returns the status of your job and some fields from the manifest. For more information about the API operation, go to GetStatus.