# Amazon Cloud Map

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-cloud-map/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/cloud-map/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Amazon Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service that maintains an updated registry of application resources and their locations. Define custom names for application resources and use Cloud Map to dynamically discover service dependencies with integrated health checking and automatic updates.

## Kin Score — 41.0 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.13.0. Trend: flat (-0.2 from 41.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 83.3 |
| Contract Quality | 29.6 |
| Governance | 45.5 |
| Contract Governance | 45.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 45.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 42.1 |
| Access Clarity | 42.1 |

## 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 (3)

- **Amazon Cloud Map Instances API** — Operations for registering and discovering service instances
- **Amazon Cloud Map Namespaces API** — Operations for managing service discovery namespaces
- **Amazon Cloud Map Services API** — Operations for managing services within namespaces

## MCP servers (1)

- **Amazon Cloud Map MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Cloud Map Agentic Access** — 6 operations · 3 acting

## Security (4)

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

## Use cases (4)

- **Microservice Discovery** — Enable services to locate dependencies in dynamic container environments with ECS and EKS.
- **Health-Based Routing** — Ensure traffic routes only to verified healthy service endpoints.
- **CI/CD Integration** — Automatically register and deregister services during CI/CD pipeline deployments.
- **Multi-Region Service Mesh** — Discover services across multiple AWS regions with a unified namespace.

## Tags

Cloud Map, Service Discovery, Microservices, DNS

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