# Amazon Forecast

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-forecast/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/forecast/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning to deliver highly accurate forecasts. It analyzes your historical time-series data and automatically selects the right machine learning algorithms to generate accurate forecasts with no machine learning expertise required.

## Kin Score — 53.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 53.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 76.3 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 57.9 |
| Access Clarity | 57.9 |

## 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 (6)

- **Amazon Forecast Dataset Groups API** — Logical groupings of related datasets
- **Amazon Forecast Datasets API** — Dataset management for training data
- **Amazon Forecast Export Jobs API** — Forecast data export to S3
- **Amazon Forecast Forecasts API** — Generated forecast outputs
- **Amazon Forecast Predictors API** — ML models trained on dataset groups
- **Amazon Forecast Tags API** — Resource metadata labels

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Forecast Agentic Access** — 12 operations · 6 acting

## Security (4)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Forecast Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **Retail Demand Forecasting** — Predict item-level sales for inventory planning and replenishment across stores.
- **Workforce Capacity Planning** — Forecast staffing needs for contact centers and seasonal workforce management.
- **Cloud Resource Forecasting** — Predict EC2 capacity requirements to optimize reserved instance purchases.
- **Supply Chain Optimization** — Forecast component and raw material demand to reduce stockouts and carrying costs.
- **Financial Revenue Forecasting** — Project revenue by product, region, and channel for financial planning.
- **Energy Load Forecasting** — Predict electricity load and generation requirements for grid balancing.

## Tags

Forecasting, Machine-Learning, Predictive Analytics, Time Series

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