# Amazon Backup

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-backup/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/backup/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 46.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 46.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 62.1 |
| Governance | 26.5 |
| Contract Governance | 26.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 33.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 29.0 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| 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 |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (4)

- **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

## MCP servers (1)

- **Amazon Backup MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Backup Agentic Access** — 7 operations · 2 acting

## Security (3)

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

## Tags

Backup, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Compliance, Governance, Business Continuity

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