JobDefinition

An object representing an Amazon Batch job definition.

containerProperties

An object with various properties specific to container-based jobs.

Type: ContainerProperties object

Required: No

jobDefinitionArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the job definition.

Type: String

Required: Yes

jobDefinitionName

The name of the job definition.

Type: String

Required: Yes

nodeProperties

An object with various properties specific to multi-node parallel jobs.

Note

If the job runs on Fargate resources, then you must not specify nodeProperties; use containerProperties instead.

Type: NodeProperties object

Required: No

parameters

Default parameters or parameter substitution placeholders that are set in the job definition. Parameters are specified as a key-value pair mapping. Parameters in a SubmitJob request override any corresponding parameter defaults from the job definition. For more information about specifying parameters, see Job definition parameters in the Amazon Batch User Guide.

Type: String to string map

Required: No

platformCapabilities

The platform capabilities required by the job definition. If no value is specified, it defaults to EC2. Jobs run on Fargate resources specify FARGATE.

Type: Array of strings

Valid Values: EC2 | FARGATE

Required: No

propagateTags

Specifies whether to propagate the tags from the job or job definition to the corresponding Amazon ECS task. If no value is specified, the tags aren't propagated. Tags can only be propagated to the tasks during task creation. For tags with the same name, job tags are given priority over job definitions tags. If the total number of combined tags from the job and job definition is over 50, the job is moved to the FAILED state.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

retryStrategy

The retry strategy to use for failed jobs that are submitted with this job definition.

Type: RetryStrategy object

Required: No

revision

The revision of the job definition.

Type: Integer

Required: Yes

schedulingPriority

The scheduling priority of the job definition. This only affects jobs in job queues with a fair share policy. Jobs with a higher scheduling priority are scheduled before jobs with a lower scheduling priority.

Type: Integer

Required: No

status

The status of the job definition.

Type: String

Required: No

tags

The tags applied to the job definition.

Type: String to string map

Map Entries: Maximum number of 50 items.

Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Value Length Constraints: Maximum length of 256.

Required: No

timeout

The timeout configuration for jobs that are submitted with this job definition. You can specify a timeout duration after which Amazon Batch terminates your jobs if they haven't finished.

Type: JobTimeout object

Required: No

type

The type of job definition, either container or multinode. If the job is run on Fargate resources, then multinode isn't supported. For more information about multi-node parallel jobs, see Creating a multi-node parallel job definition in the Amazon Batch User Guide.

Type: String

Required: Yes

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