Job limits - Amazon IoT Core
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Job limits

Amazon IoT Jobs has Service quotas, or limits, that correspond to the maximum number of service resources or operations for your Amazon Web Services account.

Active and concurrent job limits

This section will help you learn more about active and concurrent jobs and the limits that apply to them.

Active jobs and active job limit

When you create a job by using the Amazon IoT console or the CreateJob API, the job status changes to IN_PROGRESS. All in-progress jobs are active jobs and count towards the active jobs limit. This includes jobs that are either rolling out new job executions, or jobs that are waiting for devices to complete their job executions. This limit applies to both continuous and snapshot jobs.

Concurrent jobs and job concurrency limit

In-progress jobs that are either rolling out new job executions, or jobs that are canceling previously created job executions are concurrent jobs and count towards the job concurrency limit. Amazon IoT Jobs can roll out and cancel job executions swiftly at a rate of 1000 devices per minute. Each job is concurrent and counts towards the job concurrency limit only for a short time. After the job executions have been rolled out or canceled, the job is no longer concurrent and does not count towards the job concurrency limit. You can use the job concurrency to create a large number of jobs while waiting for devices to complete the job execution.

Note

If a job with the optional scheduling configuration and job document rollout scheduled to take place during a maintenance window reaches the selected startTime and you're at your maximum job concurrency limit, then that scheduled job will move to a status state of CANCELED.

To determine whether a job is concurrent, you can use the IsConcurrent property of a job from the Amazon IoT console, or by using the DescribeJob or ListJob API. This limit applies to both continuous and snapshot jobs.

To view the active jobs and job concurrency limits and other Amazon IoT Jobs quotas for your Amazon Web Services account and to request a limit increase, see Amazon IoT Device Management endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

The following diagram shows how the job concurrency applies to in-progress jobs and jobs that are being canceled.

Image showing the different states of an Amazon IoT job.
Note

New jobs with the optional SchedulingConfig will maintain an initial status state of SCHEDULED and update to IN_PROGRESS upon reaching the selected startTime. After the new job with the optional SchedulingConfig reaches the selected startTime and updates to IN_PROGRESS, it will count towards the active jobs limit and job concurrency limit. Jobs with a status state of SCHEDULED will count towards the active jobs limit, but will not count towards the job concurrency limit.

The following table shows the limits that apply to active and concurrent jobs and the concurrent and non-concurrent phases of the job states.

Active and concurrent job limits
Job status Phase Active jobs limit Job concurrency limit
SCHEDULED Non-concurrent phase: Amazon IoT Jobs waits for the scheduled startTime of the job to begin job execution notifications to your devices. Jobs in this phase only count towards the active jobs limit and will have the IsConcurrent property set to false. Applies Does not apply
IN_PROGRESS Concurrent phase: Amazon IoT Jobs accepts the request for creating the job and starts rolling out job execution notifications to your devices. Jobs in this phase are concurrent, as denoted by the IsConcurrent property set to true, and count towards both the active jobs and the job concurrency limits. Applies Applies
Non-concurrent phase: Amazon IoT Jobs waits for devices to report the results of their job executions. Jobs in this phase only count towards the active jobs limit and will have the IsConcurrent property set to false. Applies Does not apply
Canceled Concurrent phase: Amazon IoT Jobs accepts the request for canceling the job and starts canceling job executions previously created for your devices. Jobs in this phase are concurrent and will have the IsConcurrent property set to true. Once the job and job executions have been canceled, the job is no longer concurrent and does not count towards the job concurrency limit. Does not apply Applies
Note

The max duration of a recurring maintenance window is 23 hours, 50 minutes.