Amazon Direct Connect Agentic Access
Amazon Direct Connect exposes 63 API operations that an AI agent could call, of which 63 are state-changing ‘acting’ operations. This is a recommended x-agentic-access execution contract — the scope, audience, consequence tier, short-lived token constraints, and escalation each action should carry before it is handed to an autonomous agent.
By consequence: 62 write and 1 safety-critical.
1 operation are classed safety-critical and should require human-in-the-loop approval at runtime.
Contracts are classified heuristically from the provider’s OpenAPI and refresh on every APIs.io network build; audience is bound per deployment. The model follows Curity’s Access Intelligence (apidays Munich 2026). Browse every provider’s agent contracts at agentic-access.apis.io.
By consequence
Highest-consequence actions
The physical and safety-critical operations an agent could invoke — the ones that most warrant scoped tokens, tight TTLs, and escalation. Full per-operation contracts are in the source below.
| Method | Path | Consequence | Human-in-loop |
|---|---|---|---|
| POST | /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.StopBgpFailoverTest | safety-critical | required |
Source
Agentic Access
generated: '2026-07-15'
method: generated
source: openapi/amazon-direct-connect-openapi.yaml
description: Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts, classified heuristically from
the OpenAPI. A governance starting point for exposing this API to AI agents — review and bind
audience per deployment. See research/curity/agentic-governance/.
summary:
operations: 63
by_action_class:
acting: 63
by_consequence:
write: 62
safety-critical: 1
human_in_the_loop_required: 1
operations:
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.AcceptDirectConnectGatewayAssociationProposal
method: post
operationId: AcceptDirectConnectGatewayAssociationProposal
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.AllocateConnectionOnInterconnect
method: post
operationId: AllocateConnectionOnInterconnect
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.AllocateHostedConnection
method: post
operationId: AllocateHostedConnection
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.AllocatePrivateVirtualInterface
method: post
operationId: AllocatePrivateVirtualInterface
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.AllocatePublicVirtualInterface
method: post
operationId: AllocatePublicVirtualInterface
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.AllocateTransitVirtualInterface
method: post
operationId: AllocateTransitVirtualInterface
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.AssociateConnectionWithLag
method: post
operationId: AssociateConnectionWithLag
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.AssociateHostedConnection
method: post
operationId: AssociateHostedConnection
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.AssociateMacSecKey
method: post
operationId: AssociateMacSecKey
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.AssociateVirtualInterface
method: post
operationId: AssociateVirtualInterface
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.ConfirmConnection
method: post
operationId: ConfirmConnection
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.ConfirmCustomerAgreement
method: post
operationId: ConfirmCustomerAgreement
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.ConfirmPrivateVirtualInterface
method: post
operationId: ConfirmPrivateVirtualInterface
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.ConfirmPublicVirtualInterface
method: post
operationId: ConfirmPublicVirtualInterface
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.ConfirmTransitVirtualInterface
method: post
operationId: ConfirmTransitVirtualInterface
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.CreateBGPPeer
method: post
operationId: CreateBGPPeer
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.CreateConnection
method: post
operationId: CreateConnection
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.CreateDirectConnectGateway
method: post
operationId: CreateDirectConnectGateway
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.CreateDirectConnectGatewayAssociation
method: post
operationId: CreateDirectConnectGatewayAssociation
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.CreateDirectConnectGatewayAssociationProposal
method: post
operationId: CreateDirectConnectGatewayAssociationProposal
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.CreateInterconnect
method: post
operationId: CreateInterconnect
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.CreateLag
method: post
operationId: CreateLag
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.CreatePrivateVirtualInterface
method: post
operationId: CreatePrivateVirtualInterface
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.CreatePublicVirtualInterface
method: post
operationId: CreatePublicVirtualInterface
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.CreateTransitVirtualInterface
method: post
operationId: CreateTransitVirtualInterface
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DeleteBGPPeer
method: post
operationId: DeleteBGPPeer
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DeleteConnection
method: post
operationId: DeleteConnection
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DeleteDirectConnectGateway
method: post
operationId: DeleteDirectConnectGateway
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DeleteDirectConnectGatewayAssociation
method: post
operationId: DeleteDirectConnectGatewayAssociation
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DeleteDirectConnectGatewayAssociationProposal
method: post
operationId: DeleteDirectConnectGatewayAssociationProposal
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DeleteInterconnect
method: post
operationId: DeleteInterconnect
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DeleteLag
method: post
operationId: DeleteLag
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DeleteVirtualInterface
method: post
operationId: DeleteVirtualInterface
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeConnectionLoa
method: post
operationId: DescribeConnectionLoa
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeConnections
method: post
operationId: DescribeConnections
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeConnectionsOnInterconnect
method: post
operationId: DescribeConnectionsOnInterconnect
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeCustomerMetadata
method: post
operationId: DescribeCustomerMetadata
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeDirectConnectGatewayAssociationProposals
method: post
operationId: DescribeDirectConnectGatewayAssociationProposals
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeDirectConnectGatewayAssociations
method: post
operationId: DescribeDirectConnectGatewayAssociations
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeDirectConnectGatewayAttachments
method: post
operationId: DescribeDirectConnectGatewayAttachments
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeDirectConnectGateways
method: post
operationId: DescribeDirectConnectGateways
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeHostedConnections
method: post
operationId: DescribeHostedConnections
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeInterconnectLoa
method: post
operationId: DescribeInterconnectLoa
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeInterconnects
method: post
operationId: DescribeInterconnects
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeLags
method: post
operationId: DescribeLags
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeLoa
method: post
operationId: DescribeLoa
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeLocations
method: post
operationId: DescribeLocations
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeRouterConfiguration
method: post
operationId: DescribeRouterConfiguration
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeTags
method: post
operationId: DescribeTags
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeVirtualGateways
method: post
operationId: DescribeVirtualGateways
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DescribeVirtualInterfaces
method: post
operationId: DescribeVirtualInterfaces
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DisassociateConnectionFromLag
method: post
operationId: DisassociateConnectionFromLag
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.DisassociateMacSecKey
method: post
operationId: DisassociateMacSecKey
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.ListVirtualInterfaceTestHistory
method: post
operationId: ListVirtualInterfaceTestHistory
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.StartBgpFailoverTest
method: post
operationId: StartBgpFailoverTest
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.StopBgpFailoverTest
method: post
operationId: StopBgpFailoverTest
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: safety-critical
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 120
exchange: true
purpose-required: true
proof-of-possession: true
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: required
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.TagResource
method: post
operationId: TagResource
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.UntagResource
method: post
operationId: UntagResource
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.UpdateConnection
method: post
operationId: UpdateConnection
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.UpdateDirectConnectGateway
method: post
operationId: UpdateDirectConnectGateway
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.UpdateDirectConnectGatewayAssociation
method: post
operationId: UpdateDirectConnectGatewayAssociation
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.UpdateLag
method: post
operationId: UpdateLag
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
- path: /#X-Amz-Target=OvertureService.UpdateVirtualInterfaceAttributes
method: post
operationId: UpdateVirtualInterfaceAttributes
x-agentic-access:
action-class: acting
consequence: write
subject: required
audience: null
token:
max-ttl: 900
escalation:
human-in-the-loop: conditional
triggers:
- abnormal
- high-value
audit: required
Work with this as data
Every access contract here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP. Agentic Access is not yet its own endpoint on the v1 API. Reach it through catalog search and the tag graph, or the MCP server.
MCP server
One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.
https://apis.io/mcp
Tools for agentic access
3 MCP tools reach this
apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
Call it yourself
curl for this page
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/search?q=amazon-direct-connect-agentic-access&limit=10"
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/tags/amazon-direct-connect-agentic-access"
Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.