Amazon Backup

AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service that centralizes and automates the backup of data across AWS services, enabling you to configure backup policies, monitor backup activity, and restore resources with a single, unified console and API. It supports automated backup schedules, lifecycle management, cross-region copy, Vault Lock for WORM compliance, legal holds, compliance frameworks, and automated restore testing.

Amazon Backup publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Backup Jobs API, Backup Plans API, Backup Vaults API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Backup, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Storage, and Compliance.

The Amazon Backup catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Amazon Backup’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, support, engineering blog, developer console, signup flow, status page, and 19 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

49.8/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-10 · rubric v0.20.0

1 APIs

Backup Data Protection Disaster Recovery Storage Compliance Governance Business Continuity

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-10 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 49.8/100 · developing

Contract Quality 13.6 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 9.4 / 18

Access Clarity 10.9 / 18

Operational Transparency 1.5 / 12

Contract Governance 3.2 / 11

Discoverability 6.8 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Amazon Backup Backup Jobs API

Operations for starting and monitoring backup jobs

Amazon Backup Backup Plans API

Operations for creating and managing backup plans

Amazon Backup Backup Vaults API

Operations for creating and managing backup vaults

Amazon Backup Restore Jobs API

Operations for restoring backed-up resources

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon Backup Backup Jobs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon Backup Backup Jobs Backup Plans API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon Backup Backup Jobs Backup Vaults API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon Backup Backup Jobs Restore Jobs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Amazon Backup Context

0 classes · 4 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Amazon Backup API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Amazon Backup Plan

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Backup Resource Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Create Backup Plan Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Start Backup Job Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Amazon Backup Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Backup Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Amazon Backup Trust Center

PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Amazon Backup Agentic Access

7 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Console

Console

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

WellKnown

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

Security

Compliance

SecurityTxt

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Status

StackOverflow

Contact

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

KnowledgeCenter

KnowledgeCenter

Source (apis.yml)

aid: amazon-backup
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Amazon Backup
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/amazon-backup.png
specificationVersion: '0.23'
description: AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service that centralizes and automates the backup of data across AWS services,
  enabling you to configure backup policies, monitor backup activity, and restore resources with a single, unified console
  and API. It supports automated backup schedules, lifecycle management, cross-region copy, Vault Lock for WORM compliance,
  legal holds, compliance frameworks, and automated restore testing.
created: '2024-01-15'
modified: '2026-06-20'
tags:
- AWS
- Backup
- Data Protection
- Disaster Recovery
- Storage
- Compliance
- Governance
- Business Continuity
apis:
- aid: amazon-backup:amazon-backup-backup-jobs-api
  name: Amazon Backup Backup Jobs API
  description: Operations for starting and monitoring backup jobs
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/
  baseURL: https://backup.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Backup Jobs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-backup-backup-jobs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/json-schema/amazon-backup-plan-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/json-structure/backup-resource-structure.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/json-ld/amazon-backup-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRuleset
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/spectral/ruleset.yml
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/capabilities/capabilities.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/vocabulary.yml
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/pricing/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/getting-started/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/faqs/
  - type: UserGuide
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/API_Reference.html
  - type: CLIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/backup/
  - type: Security
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/security.html
  - type: Packages
    url: packages/amazon-backup-packages.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/amazon-backup-llms.txt
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/amazon-backup-conformance.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/amazon-backup-problem-types.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/amazon-backup-lifecycle.yml
- aid: amazon-backup:amazon-backup-backup-plans-api
  name: Amazon Backup Backup Plans API
  description: Operations for creating and managing backup plans
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/
  baseURL: https://backup.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Backup Plans
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-backup-backup-plans-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/json-schema/amazon-backup-plan-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/json-structure/backup-resource-structure.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/json-ld/amazon-backup-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRuleset
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/spectral/ruleset.yml
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/capabilities/capabilities.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/vocabulary.yml
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/pricing/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/getting-started/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/faqs/
  - type: UserGuide
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/API_Reference.html
  - type: CLIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/backup/
  - type: Security
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/security.html
  - type: Packages
    url: packages/amazon-backup-packages.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/amazon-backup-llms.txt
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/amazon-backup-conformance.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/amazon-backup-problem-types.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/amazon-backup-lifecycle.yml
- aid: amazon-backup:amazon-backup-backup-vaults-api
  name: Amazon Backup Backup Vaults API
  description: Operations for creating and managing backup vaults
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/
  baseURL: https://backup.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Backup Vaults
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-backup-backup-vaults-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/json-schema/amazon-backup-plan-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/json-structure/backup-resource-structure.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/json-ld/amazon-backup-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRuleset
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/spectral/ruleset.yml
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/capabilities/capabilities.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/vocabulary.yml
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/pricing/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/getting-started/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/faqs/
  - type: UserGuide
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/API_Reference.html
  - type: CLIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/backup/
  - type: Security
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/security.html
  - type: Packages
    url: packages/amazon-backup-packages.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/amazon-backup-llms.txt
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/amazon-backup-conformance.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/amazon-backup-problem-types.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/amazon-backup-lifecycle.yml
- aid: amazon-backup:amazon-backup-restore-jobs-api
  name: Amazon Backup Restore Jobs API
  description: Operations for restoring backed-up resources
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/
  baseURL: https://backup.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Restore Jobs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-backup-restore-jobs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/json-schema/amazon-backup-plan-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/json-structure/backup-resource-structure.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/json-ld/amazon-backup-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRuleset
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/spectral/ruleset.yml
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/capabilities/capabilities.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-backup/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/vocabulary.yml
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/pricing/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/getting-started/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/faqs/
  - type: UserGuide
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/API_Reference.html
  - type: CLIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/backup/
  - type: Security
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/security.html
  - type: Packages
    url: packages/amazon-backup-packages.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/amazon-backup-llms.txt
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/amazon-backup-conformance.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/amazon-backup-problem-types.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/amazon-backup-lifecycle.yml
common:
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/amazon-backup-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/amazon-backup-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/amazon-backup-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/amazon-backup-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/amazon-backup-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/amazon-backup-domain-security.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/
- type: Website
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/backup/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
- type: Support
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/
- type: Blog
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/aws
- type: Console
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/backup/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://signin.aws.amazon.com/signup?request_type=register
- type: Login
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/console/
- type: Status
  url: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
- type: KnowledgeCenter
  url: https://repost.aws/knowledge-center
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices
- type: StackOverflow
  url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/aws-backup
- type: Contact
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
- type: Security
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/security.html
- type: Compliance
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/amazon-backup-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/amazon-backup-security.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
  url: https://apievangelist.com
x-parent: aws
x-relationship: product

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