# Amazon Certificate Manager

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-certificate-manager/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) handles the complexity of creating, storing, and renewing public and private SSL/TLS X.509 certificates and keys that protect your AWS websites and applications, enabling you to manage certificate lifecycles centrally.

## Kin Score — 51.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.13.0. Trend: flat (-0.5 from 51.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 87.0 |
| Contract Quality | 67.3 |
| Governance | 45.5 |
| Contract Governance | 45.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 33.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 27.7 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| 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

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

## APIs (1)

- **Amazon Certificate Manager Certificates API** — Operations for requesting, describing, and managing SSL/TLS certificates

## MCP servers (1)

- **Amazon Certificate Manager MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Certificate Manager Agentic Access** — 4 operations · 2 acting

## Security (3)

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

## Use cases (4)

- **Website Protection** — Securely terminate HTTPS traffic to public websites and web applications using ACM certificates.
- **Internal Service Security** — Protect private network communication between servers, mobile devices, IoT devices, and internal applications.
- **Uptime Maintenance** — Automated certificate lifecycle management prevents certificate expiration-related service downtime.
- **Compliance and Audit** — Centralize certificate management to meet compliance requirements and simplify security audits.

## Tags

Certificates, Encryption, Security, SSL, TLS

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