# Submit an Amazon EKS MNP job
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To submit a job using the registered job definition, enter the following command. Replace the value of <EKS\$1JOB\$1QUEUE\$1NAME> with the name or ARN of a pre-existing job queue associated with an Amazon EKS compute environment. 

```
aws batch submit-job --job-queue <EKS_JOB_QUEUE_NAME> \
    --job-definition MyEksMnpJobDefinition \
    --job-name myFirstEksMnpJob
```

You will receive the following JSON response.

```
{
    "jobArn": "arn:aws:batch:region:account:job/9b979cce-9da0-446d-90e2-ffa16d52af68",
    "jobName": "myFirstEksMnpJob", 
    "jobId": "<JOB_ID>"
}
```

You can check the status of the job using the returned jobId with the following command.

```
aws batch describe-jobs --jobs <JOB_ID>
```