# Amazon Application Discovery Service

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-application-discovery-service/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

Amazon Application Discovery Service helps enterprise customers plan application migration projects by automatically identifying servers, virtual machines, software, and software dependencies running in their on-premises data centers.

## Kin Score — 21.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.13.0. Trend: flat (-0.2 from 22.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 83.3 |
| Contract Quality | 29.8 |
| Governance | 30.3 |
| Contract Governance | 30.3 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 30.2 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| 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 (6)

- **Amazon Application Discovery Service Agents API** — Operations for managing discovery agents and collectors
- **Amazon Application Discovery Service Applications API** — Operations for managing application groupings
- **Amazon Application Discovery Service Configurations API** — Operations for querying discovered configuration items
- **Amazon Application Discovery Service Exports API** — Operations for exporting discovered data
- **Amazon Application Discovery Service Imports API** — Operations for importing server data
- **Amazon Application Discovery Service Tags API** — Operations for managing configuration item tags

## MCP servers (1)

- **Amazon Application Discovery Service MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Application Discovery Service Agentic Access** — 26 operations · 26 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Amazon Application Discovery Service Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Amazon Application Discovery Service Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon Application Discovery Service Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Use cases (6)

- **Discover all servers and processes in on-premises data centers before migration**
- **Map application dependencies to create migration groups and waves**
- **Export inventory data for detailed analysis and migration planning in third-party tools**
- **Import existing server inventory from CMDBs or spreadsheets without installing agents**
- **Track migration readiness across thousands of servers in a single dashboard**
- **Identify unknown servers and shadow IT in large enterprise environments**

## Tags

Amazon Application Discovery Service, Migration, Discovery, Infrastructure

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