# Amazon Elastic Load Balancing

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-elastic-load-balancing/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance for your applications.

## Kin Score — 55.6 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 55.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 71.4 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 59.2 |
| Access Clarity | 59.2 |

## Agent readiness — 41.8 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

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

## APIs (5)

- **Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Listeners API** — Operations for creating and managing listeners
- **Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Load Balancers API** — Operations for creating and managing load balancers
- **Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Rules API** — Operations for creating and managing listener rules
- **Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Target Groups API** — Operations for creating and managing target groups
- **Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Targets API** — Operations for registering and deregistering targets

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Agentic Access** — 13 operations

## Security (4)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (4)

- **Web Application Load Balancing** — Distribute HTTP/HTTPS traffic across multiple web servers
- **Microservices Routing** — Route requests to different microservices based on URL paths or headers
- **Container Load Balancing** — Load balance traffic to ECS containers and Kubernetes pods
- **Multi-Region Traffic Management** — Distribute global traffic across multiple AWS regions

## Tags

Amazon Web Services, High Availability, Load Balancing, Networking, Scalability

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