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Jobs APIs - Amazon Location Service

Jobs APIs

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.

  • GetJob: Retrieves comprehensive information about a specific job. For more information, See GetJob.

  • CancelJob: Stops a running or pending job. For more information, See CancelJob.

  • ListJobs: Retrieves a paginated list of jobs. For more information, See ListJobs.

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

  • Healthcare systems and insurers: Validate patient and provider addresses for claims processing, care coordination, and regulatory reporting requirements.

  • Financial services and insurance carriers: Standardize customer addresses to support identity verification workflows, risk assessment, and fraud prevention.

  • Retail and e-commerce operations: Clean customer databases to reduce shipping failures, improve delivery rates, and optimize fulfillment costs.

  • Transportation and logistics providers: Validate delivery addresses to optimize routes and reduce failed deliveries across last-mile operations.

  • Data migration and database maintenance: Validate and clean address records during system migrations and ongoing database maintenance to maintain data quality.

  • Analytics, reporting, and entity resolution: Standardize addresses for location-based analytics, demographic analysis, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database cleanup through entity resolution workflows.

ValidateAddress