SubmitServiceJob
Submits a service job to a specified job queue to run on SageMaker AI. A service job is a unit of work that you submit to AWS Batch for execution on SageMaker AI.
Request Syntax
POST /v1/submitservicejob HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json
{
"clientToken": "string
",
"jobName": "string
",
"jobQueue": "string
",
"retryStrategy": {
"attempts": number
,
"evaluateOnExit": [
{
"action": "string
",
"onStatusReason": "string
"
}
]
},
"schedulingPriority": number
,
"serviceJobType": "string
",
"serviceRequestPayload": "string
",
"shareIdentifier": "string
",
"tags": {
"string
" : "string
"
},
"timeoutConfig": {
"attemptDurationSeconds": number
}
}
URI Request Parameters
The request does not use any URI parameters.
Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.
- clientToken
-
A unique identifier for the request. This token is used to ensure idempotency of requests. If this parameter is specified and two submit requests with identical payloads and
clientToken
s are received, these requests are considered the same request and the second request is rejected.Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.
Required: No
- jobName
-
The name of the service job. It can be up to 128 characters long. It can contain uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).
Type: String
Required: Yes
- jobQueue
-
The job queue into which the service job is submitted. You can specify either the name or the ARN of the queue. The job queue must have the type
SAGEMAKER_TRAINING
.Type: String
Required: Yes
- retryStrategy
-
The retry strategy to use for failed service jobs that are submitted with this service job request.
Type: ServiceJobRetryStrategy object
Required: No
- schedulingPriority
-
The scheduling priority of the service job. Valid values are integers between 0 and 9999.
Type: Integer
Required: No
- serviceJobType
-
The type of service job. For SageMaker Training jobs, specify
SAGEMAKER_TRAINING
.Type: String
Valid Values:
SAGEMAKER_TRAINING
Required: Yes
- serviceRequestPayload
-
The request, in JSON, for the service that the SubmitServiceJob operation is queueing.
Type: String
Required: Yes
-
The share identifier for the service job. Don't specify this parameter if the job queue doesn't have a fair- share scheduling policy. If the job queue has a fair-share scheduling policy, then this parameter must be specified.
Type: String
Required: No
-
The tags that you apply to the service job request. Each tag consists of a key and an optional value. For more information, see Tagging your AWS Batch resources.
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
- timeoutConfig
-
The timeout configuration for the service job. If none is specified, AWS Batch defers to the default timeout of the underlying service handling the job.
Type: ServiceJobTimeout object
Required: No
Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json
{
"jobArn": "string",
"jobId": "string",
"jobName": "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.
Errors
- ClientException
-
These errors are usually caused by a client action. One example cause is using an action or resource on behalf of a user that doesn't have permissions to use the action or resource. Another cause is specifying an identifier that's not valid.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- ServerException
-
These errors are usually caused by a server issue.
HTTP Status Code: 500
Examples
In the following example or examples, the Authorization header contents
(
[authorization-params]
) must be replaced with an AWS Signature Version 4
signature. For more information about creating these signatures, see Signature Version 4 Signing Process in the
AWS
General Reference.
You only need to learn how to sign HTTP requests if you intend to manually create them. When you use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
Example
This example submits a SageMaker training job to the specified job queue.
Sample Request
POST /v1/submitservicejob HTTP/1.1
Host: batch.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: [content-length]
Authorization: [authorization-params]
X-Amz-Date: 20250801T083015Z
User-Agent: aws-cli/2.27.33 Python/3.13.4 Darwin/24.3.0
{
"jobName": "sagemaker-training-job-example",
"jobQueue": "sagemaker-training-queue",
"retryStrategy": {
"attempts": 2,
"evaluateOnExit": [
{
"action": "Retry",
"onStatusReason": "Received status from SageMaker: AlgorithmError: *"
},
{
"action": "EXIT",
"onStatusReason": "*"
}
]
},
"serviceJobType": "SAGEMAKER_TRAINING",
"serviceRequestPayload": "{\"TrainingJobName\": \"sagemaker-training-job-example\", \"AlgorithmSpecification\": {\"TrainingImage\": \"123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/pytorch-inference:1.8.0-cpu-py3\", \"TrainingInputMode\": \"File\", \"ContainerEntrypoint\": [\"sleep\", \"1\"]}, \"RoleArn\":\"arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/SageMakerExecutionRole\", \"OutputDataConfig\": {\"S3OutputPath\": \"s3://example-bucket/model-output/\"}, \"ResourceConfig\": {\"InstanceType\": \"ml.m5.large\", \"InstanceCount\": 1, \"VolumeSizeInGB\": 1}}",
"timeoutConfig": {
"attemptDurationSeconds": 300
},
"tags": {
"tag-name": "value-123"
}
}
Sample Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: [content-length]
Connection: keep-alive
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:30:16 GMT
x-amzn-RequestId: [request-id]
X-Amzn-Trace-Id: [trace-id]
X-Cache: Miss from cloudfront
Via: 1.1 hf65sd33h6j9k2l5m8n1p4q7r0sexample.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
X-Amz-Cf-Id: jkl5mno8pqr1stu4vwx7yz0123ghijklmnopqrstuvwexample
{
"jobName": "sagemaker-training-job-example",
"jobId": "a4d6c728-8ee8-4c65-8e2a-9a5e8f4b7c3d",
"jobArn": "arn:aws:batch:us-east-1:123456789012:service-job/a4d6c728-8ee8-4c65-8e2a-9a5e8f4b7c3d"
}
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: