# Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-data-lifecycle-manager/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/data-lifecycle-manager/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager provides an automated way to manage the lifecycle of your AWS resources. Using lifecycle policies, you can automate the creation, retention, and deletion of Amazon EBS snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs, reducing storage costs and simplifying backup management. Policies target EBS volumes and EC2 instances using tags, execute on configurable schedules, and apply flexible retention rules based on count or age.

## Kin Score — 52.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 52.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 77.3 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 47.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 51.3 |
| Access Clarity | 51.3 |

## Agent readiness — 41.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (2)

- **Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager Lifecycle Policies API** — Operations for managing EBS snapshot and AMI lifecycle policies
- **Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager Tags API** — Operations for managing resource tags

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager Agentic Access** — 8 operations · 5 acting

## Security (4)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Automated Daily Backups** — Schedule daily EBS volume snapshots with automated retention of the last 7 or 30 days of backups without manual intervention.
- **Compliance and Audit Retention** — Meet regulatory backup retention requirements by defining long-term retention policies (monthly/yearly) for compliance snapshots.
- **Disaster Recovery** — Automatically copy EBS snapshots to secondary AWS regions to enable cross-region disaster recovery with minimal RTO and RPO.
- **Golden AMI Pipeline** — Automate the creation of hardened EC2 AMI images from approved instances and manage their lifecycle for deployment fleets.
- **Storage Cost Optimization** — Reduce EBS snapshot storage costs by automatically deleting outdated snapshots based on configurable age or count retention rules.

## Tags

Backup, EBS Snapshots, Lifecycle Management, Storage, Automation, Compliance

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