# Amazon Kendra

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-kendra/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent enterprise search service powered by machine learning that enables organizations to index and search across multiple data sources, delivering highly accurate and relevant answers to natural language queries.

## Kin Score — 61.7 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 61.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 76.1 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 64.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 76.3 |
| Access Clarity | 76.3 |

## Agent readiness — 32.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 (8)

- **Amazon Kendra Data Sources API** — Operations for managing data source connectors
- **Amazon Kendra Documents API** — Operations for managing documents in the index
- **Amazon Kendra Experience API** — Operations for managing search experiences
- **Amazon Kendra FAQs API** — Operations for managing FAQ entries
- **Amazon Kendra Indexes API** — Operations for creating and managing search indexes
- **Amazon Kendra Queries API** — Operations for querying the search index
- **Amazon Kendra Query Suggestions API** — Operations for query autocompletion
- **Amazon Kendra Thesaurus API** — Operations for managing custom synonyms

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Kendra Agentic Access** — 26 operations · 17 acting

## Security (4)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Kendra Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Employee Productivity** — Help employees find accurate answers and data-driven insights across internal knowledge bases and document repositories.
- **Customer Service** — Power self-service chatbots and agent-assist solutions for contact centers with intelligent search.
- **SaaS Application Integration** — Integrate intelligent search and conversational AI into customer-facing applications via the Kendra API.
- **Generative AI Applications** — Use Kendra GenAI indices in Amazon Q Business and Amazon Bedrock knowledge bases to build RAG applications.
- **Enterprise Knowledge Management** — Index and search across multiple heterogeneous data sources to create a unified knowledge search experience.

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Search, Knowledge-Management, Machine-Learning, Natural-Language

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