# Amazon IAM

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-iam/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/iam/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely. Using IAM, you can create and manage AWS users, groups, roles, and policies, and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources. IAM is a feature of your AWS account offered at no additional charge.

## Kin Score — 51.0 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 51.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 67.7 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 51.3 |
| Access Clarity | 51.3 |

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (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 | no |
| 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 IAM Access Keys API** — Operations for managing IAM access keys
- **Amazon IAM Groups API** — Operations for managing IAM groups
- **Amazon IAM Policies API** — Operations for managing IAM policies
- **Amazon IAM Roles API** — Operations for managing IAM roles
- **Amazon IAM Users API** — Operations for managing IAM users

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Iam Agentic Access** — 25 operations

## Security (4)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Iam Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Least Privilege Access** — Grant only the permissions required for specific tasks to reduce the attack surface.
- **Cross-Account Access** — Enable users in one AWS account to assume roles in another account.
- **Service-to-Service Authorization** — Allow AWS services to access other services on your behalf through service roles.
- **Temporary Credentials** — Use STS to issue temporary security credentials for short-lived access.
- **Security Compliance** — Audit IAM configurations to ensure compliance with security policies and regulations.

## Tags

Access Management, Authentication, Authorization, Identity, Security

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