<p>This API is no longer supported and will eventually be removed. We recommend you use <a>ListClusters</a>, <a>DescribeCluster</a>, <a>ListSteps</a>, <a>ListInstanceGroups</a> and <a>ListBootstrapActions</a> instead.</p> <p>DescribeJobFlows returns a list of job flows that match all of the supplied parameters. The parameters can include a list of job flow IDs, job flow states, and restrictions on job flow creation date and time.</p> <p>Regardless of supplied parameters, only job flows created within the last two months are returned.</p> <p>If no parameters are supplied, then job flows matching either of the following criteria are returned:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Job flows created and completed in the last two weeks</p> </li> <li> <p> Job flows created within the last two months that are in one of the following states: <code>RUNNING</code>, <code>WAITING</code>, <code>SHUTTING_DOWN</code>, <code>STARTING</code> </p> </li> </ul> <p>Amazon EMR can return a maximum of 512 job flow descriptions.</p>

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

<p>This API is no longer supported and will eventually be removed. We recommend you use <a>ListClusters</a>, <a>DescribeCluster</a>, <a>ListSteps</a>, <a>ListInstanceGroups</a> and <a>ListBootstrapActions</a> instead.</p> <p>DescribeJobFlows returns a list of job flows that match all of the supplied parameters. The parameters can include a list of job flow IDs, job flow states, and restrictions on job flow creation date and time.</p> <p>Regardless of supplied parameters, only job flows created within the last two months are returned.</p> <p>If no parameters are supplied, then job flows matching either of the following criteria are returned:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Job flows created and completed in the last two weeks</p> </li> <li> <p> Job flows created within the last two months that are in one of the following states: <code>RUNNING</code>, <code>WAITING</code>, <code>SHUTTING_DOWN</code>, <code>STARTING</code> </p> </li> </ul> <p>Amazon EMR can return a maximum of 512 job flow descriptions.</p>

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}