# Amazon API Gateway

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-api-gateway/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/  
**APIs profiled:** 18

Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.

## Kin Score — 54.5 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.13.0. Trend: flat (+0.1 from 54.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 77.8 |
| Contract Quality | 82.8 |
| Governance | 45.5 |
| Contract Governance | 45.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 40.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |
| Access Clarity | 60.5 |

## Agent readiness — 24.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | documented |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (18)

- **Amazon API Gateway WebSocket API** — Build real-time two-way communication applications with WebSocket APIs.
- **Amazon API Gateway HTTP API** — Lower latency and lower cost alternative to REST APIs with essential features for building HTTP-based APIs.
- **Amazon API Gateway Management API** — API for directly managing runtime aspects of deployed APIs, including sending data to connected WebSocket clients via the @connections endpoint and managing connection state.
- **Amazon API Gateway API Keys API** — Operations for managing API keys
- **Amazon API Gateway Authorizers API** — Operations for managing API authorizers
- **Amazon API Gateway Base Path Mappings API** — Operations for managing base path mappings
- **Amazon API Gateway Deployments API** — Operations for managing API deployments
- **Amazon API Gateway Documentation API** — Operations for managing API documentation
- **Amazon API Gateway Domain Names API** — Operations for managing custom domain names
- **Amazon API Gateway Gateway Responses API** — Operations for managing gateway responses
- **Amazon API Gateway Methods API** — Operations for managing HTTP methods on resources
- **Amazon API Gateway Models API** — Operations for managing API data models
- **Amazon API Gateway Request Validators API** — Operations for managing request validators
- **Amazon API Gateway Resources API** — Operations for managing API resources (URL paths)
- **Amazon API Gateway REST APIs API** — Operations for creating and managing REST APIs
- **Amazon API Gateway Stages API** — Operations for managing deployment stages
- **Amazon API Gateway Usage Plans API** — Operations for managing usage plans and throttling
- **Amazon API Gateway VPC Links API** — Operations for managing VPC links

## MCP servers (1)

- **Amazon API Gateway MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Api Gateway Agentic Access** — 134 operations · 78 acting

## Security (4)

- **Amazon Api Gateway Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Amazon Api Gateway Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon Api Gateway Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Amazon Api Gateway Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Use cases (4)

- **Serverless API Backend** — Build serverless REST APIs backed by Lambda functions using API Gateway as the front door for request routing.
- **Microservices Gateway** — Use API Gateway as a unified entry point for microservices, providing routing, authentication, and rate limiting.
- **Real-Time Applications** — Build chat, collaboration, and live data streaming applications using WebSocket APIs with persistent client connections.
- **API Lifecycle Automation** — Automate API creation, deployment, and versioning using the API Gateway control plane API in CI/CD pipelines.

## Tags

Gateway, HTTP API, REST API, Serverless, WebSocket

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-api-gateway/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.