AWS HealthLake

Amazon HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible, FHIR R4-compliant managed service for importing, transforming, storing, and querying health data from patients and clinical systems. It provides a transactional FHIR server with bulk import/export, medical NLP for unstructured data extraction, SMART on FHIR authorization, and integration with AWS analytics services.

AWS HealthLake publishes 11 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Datastore API, Export API, Import API, and 8 more. Tagged areas include Healthcare, FHIR, Health Data, Clinical Data, and HIPAA.

The AWS HealthLake catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

AWS HealthLake’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, pricing, getting-started guide, developer console, CLI, and 19 more developer resources.

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56.3/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 36/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessPaid

1 published contract

Healthcare FHIR Health Data Clinical Data HIPAA Interoperability Natural Language Processing Medical HL7 Amazon Web Services

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Health Information Management

BC-2900

Datastore

POST /#X-Amz-Target=HealthLake.CreateFHIRDatastore POST /#CreateFHIRDatastore

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 56.3/100 · strong

Contract Quality 10.5 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 10.5 / 15

Access Clarity 9.9 / 15

Operational Transparency 4.9 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.3 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 36/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Agent Skills +5 pts — skills artifact present, graded by who authored it

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 56.2 — up to +11.0 composite points
Contract Governance scores 9.8 — up to +10.8 composite points
Access Clarity scores 65.8 — up to +6.8 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

HL7 FHIR

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 11

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

AWS HealthLake FHIR Import API

Asynchronous bulk import API for loading FHIR R4 resources from Amazon S3 into a HealthLake data store. Supports starting, describing, and listing import jobs with up to 1 milli...

AWS HealthLake FHIR Export API

Asynchronous bulk export API for exporting FHIR R4 resources from a HealthLake data store to Amazon S3. Supports starting, describing, listing, and canceling export jobs, and ex...

AWS HealthLake FHIR R4 Server API

Transactional FHIR R4 server endpoints for reading, writing, searching, and validating FHIR resources within a data store. Supports SMART on FHIR authorization, FHIR Bulk Data A...

AWS HealthLake Resource Tagging API

API operations for adding, listing, and removing tags on HealthLake resources such as data stores. Supports up to 200 tags per resource for cost allocation and resource management.

AWS HealthLake Datastore API

Operations for creating, describing, listing, and deleting FHIR R4 data stores

AWS HealthLake Export API

Asynchronous bulk export operations for exporting FHIR resources to Amazon S3

AWS HealthLake Import API

Asynchronous bulk import operations for loading FHIR resources from Amazon S3

AWS HealthLake Tags API

Resource tagging operations for cost allocation and resource management

AWS HealthLake Healthlake Data Transformation Job API

The Healthlake Data Transformation Job API from AWS HealthLake — 3 operation(s) for healthlake data transformation job.

AWS HealthLake Healthlake Data Transformation Profile API

The Healthlake Data Transformation Profile API from AWS HealthLake — 5 operation(s) for healthlake data transformation profile.

AWS HealthLake Healthlake Operations API

Aws Healthlake Plans

12 plans

PLANS

Aws Healthlake Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Aws Healthlake Rate Limits

33 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Aws Healthlake Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

context Context

0 classes · 42 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

AWS HealthLake — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Aws Healthlake Trust Center

PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Aws Healthlake Agentic Access

13 operations · 10 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Console

Console

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

SDKs

SDKs

CLI

CLI

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Compliance

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Forums

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Partners

Partners

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

PrivateLink

PrivateLink

Source (apis.yml)

name: AWS HealthLake
description: Amazon HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible, FHIR R4-compliant managed service for importing, transforming, storing,
  and querying health data from patients and clinical systems. It provides a transactional FHIR server with bulk import/export,
  medical NLP for unstructured data extraction, SMART on FHIR authorization, and integration with AWS analytics services.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-02'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/aws-healthlake.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aws-healthlake/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
aid: aws-healthlake
type: Index
tags:
- Healthcare
- FHIR
- Health Data
- Clinical Data
- HIPAA
- Interoperability
- Natural Language Processing
- Medical
- HL7
- Amazon Web Services
tags_raw:
- Healthcare
- FHIR
- Health Data
- Clinical Data
- HIPAA
- Interoperability
- NLP
- Medical
- HL7
- AWS
apis:
- name: AWS HealthLake FHIR Import API
  description: Asynchronous bulk import API for loading FHIR R4 resources from Amazon S3 into a HealthLake data store. Supports
    starting, describing, and listing import jobs with up to 1 million files and 5 TB total per job.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_StartFHIRImportJob.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Import
  - Bulk Data
  - FHIR
  - S3
  - Async
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_StartFHIRImportJob.html
- name: AWS HealthLake FHIR Export API
  description: Asynchronous bulk export API for exporting FHIR R4 resources from a HealthLake data store to Amazon S3. Supports
    starting, describing, listing, and canceling export jobs, and exporting to analytics-ready formats for use with Amazon
    Athena.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_StartFHIRExportJob.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Export
  - Bulk Data
  - FHIR
  - S3
  - Analytics
  - Athena
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_StartFHIRExportJob.html
- name: AWS HealthLake FHIR R4 Server API
  description: Transactional FHIR R4 server endpoints for reading, writing, searching, and validating FHIR resources within
    a data store. Supports SMART on FHIR authorization, FHIR Bulk Data Access, US Core IG, HL7 SMART App Launch Framework,
    OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect. Also includes FHIR Subscriptions via Amazon EventBridge and REST-Hook.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/working-with-FHIR-healthlake.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - FHIR
  - Search
  - Validate
  - SMART on FHIR
  - OAuth
  - Subscription
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - FHIR R4
  - Read
  - Write
  - Search
  - Validate
  - SMART on FHIR
  - OAuth 2.0
  - Subscriptions
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/working-with-FHIR-healthlake.html
- name: AWS HealthLake Resource Tagging API
  description: API operations for adding, listing, and removing tags on HealthLake resources such as data stores. Supports
    up to 200 tags per resource for cost allocation and resource management.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_TagResource.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Tags
  - Resource Management
  - Cost Allocation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_TagResource.html
- aid: aws-healthlake:aws-healthlake-datastore-api
  name: AWS HealthLake Datastore API
  description: Operations for creating, describing, listing, and deleting FHIR R4 data stores
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Datastore
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aws-healthlake-datastore-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
- aid: aws-healthlake:aws-healthlake-export-api
  name: AWS HealthLake Export API
  description: Asynchronous bulk export operations for exporting FHIR resources to Amazon S3
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Export
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aws-healthlake-export-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
- aid: aws-healthlake:aws-healthlake-import-api
  name: AWS HealthLake Import API
  description: Asynchronous bulk import operations for loading FHIR resources from Amazon S3
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Import
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aws-healthlake-import-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
- aid: aws-healthlake:aws-healthlake-tags-api
  name: AWS HealthLake Tags API
  description: Resource tagging operations for cost allocation and resource management
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Tags
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aws-healthlake-tags-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
- aid: aws-healthlake:aws-healthlake-data-transformation-job-api
  name: AWS HealthLake Healthlake Data Transformation Job API
  description: The Healthlake Data Transformation Job API from AWS HealthLake — 3 operation(s) for healthlake data transformation
    job.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_StartFHIRImportJob.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Healthlake Data Transformation Job
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aws-healthlake-data-transformation-job-api-openapi.yml
- aid: aws-healthlake:aws-healthlake-data-transformation-profile-api
  name: AWS HealthLake Healthlake Data Transformation Profile API
  description: The Healthlake Data Transformation Profile API from AWS HealthLake — 5 operation(s) for healthlake data transformation
    profile.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_StartFHIRImportJob.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Healthlake Data Transformation Profile
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aws-healthlake-data-transformation-profile-api-openapi.yml
- aid: aws-healthlake:aws-healthlake-operations-api
  name: AWS HealthLake Healthlake Operations API
  description: The Healthlake Operations API from AWS HealthLake — 7 operation(s) for healthlake operations.
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_StartFHIRImportJob.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Healthlake Operations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aws-healthlake-operations-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/aws-healthlake-capability-edges.yml
  name: AWS HealthLake Business Capability Map
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/aws-healthlake/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/aws-healthlake-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/aws-healthlake-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/aws-healthlake-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/aws-healthlake-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/aws-healthlake-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/healthlake/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/what-is-amazon-health-lake.html
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
- type: Pricing
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/healthlake/pricing/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/getting-started-amazon-health-lake.html
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
- type: Console
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/home
- type: SDKs
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/tools/
- type: CLI
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/healthlake/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/releases.html
- type: Authentication
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/security-iam.html
- type: Compliance
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/
- type: PrivateLink
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/vpc-endpoints.html
- type: Plans
  url: plans/aws-healthlake-plans.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/aws-healthlake-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/aws-healthlake-finops.yml
- type: Partners
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/healthlake/partners/
- type: Forums
  url: https://repost.aws/tags/questions/TAFhiamjeiTUCXp3LbfpEJhw/aws-health-lake
- url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/feed/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: amazon-web-services
x-relationship: product

AWS HealthLake API — frequently asked questions

Does AWS HealthLake have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 11 APIs from AWS HealthLake, including AWS HealthLake FHIR Import API, AWS HealthLake FHIR Export API and AWS HealthLake FHIR R4 Server API, and 8 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the AWS HealthLake API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 7 OpenAPI specifications for AWS HealthLake, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the AWS HealthLake API?

AWS HealthLake uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Aws Healthlake Authentication.

How much does the AWS HealthLake API cost?

APIs.io lists 12 pricing plans for AWS HealthLake, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing Plans on this page.

Is the AWS HealthLake API ready for AI agents?

AWS HealthLake has a Kin Score of 56.3 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 35.8 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-02.

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