# Amazon Kinesis

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-kinesis/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/  
**APIs profiled:** 11

Amazon Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time streaming data so you can get timely insights and react quickly to new information. Amazon Kinesis offers key capabilities to cost-effectively process streaming data at any scale, along with the flexibility to choose the tools that best suit the requirements of your application.

## Kin Score — 57.1 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 57.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 78.9 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 68.4 |
| Access Clarity | 68.4 |

## Agent readiness — 37.2 (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 | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

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

## APIs (11)

- **Amazon Kinesis Account API** — Operations for describing and updating account-level settings and limits.
- **Amazon Kinesis Consumers API** — Operations for registering, describing, listing, and deregistering enhanced fan-out consumers.
- **Amazon Kinesis Encryption API** — Operations for starting and stopping server-side encryption on a stream.
- **Amazon Kinesis Monitoring API** — Operations for enabling and disabling enhanced shard-level monitoring.
- **Amazon Kinesis Policies API** — Operations for managing resource-based policies on streams.
- **Amazon Kinesis Records API** — Operations for putting and getting data records to and from a stream.
- **Amazon Kinesis Shards API** — Operations for listing, splitting, merging, and managing shards within a stream.
- **Amazon Kinesis Streams API** — Operations for creating, describing, listing, and managing Kinesis data streams.
- **Amazon Kinesis #X Amz Target=Kinesis 20131202.AddTagsToStream API** — The #X Amz Target=Kinesis 20131202.AddTagsToStream API from Amazon Kinesis — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=kinesis 20131202.addtagstostream.
- **Amazon Kinesis #X Amz Target=Kinesis 20131202.ListTagsForStream API** — The #X Amz Target=Kinesis 20131202.ListTagsForStream API from Amazon Kinesis — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=kinesis 20131202.listtagsforstream.
- **Amazon Kinesis #X Amz Target=Kinesis 20131202.RemoveTagsFromStream API** — The #X Amz Target=Kinesis 20131202.RemoveTagsFromStream API from Amazon Kinesis — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=kinesis 20131202.removetagsfromstream.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Kinesis Agentic Access** — 39 operations · 36 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (4)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Kinesis Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (3)

- **Real-Time Analytics** — Analyze streaming data for operational metrics and business intelligence.
- **Event-Driven Architectures** — Build event-driven microservices that react to real-time data streams.
- **Machine Learning** — Feed real-time data into ML models for online training and inference.

## Tags

Analytics, Big Data, Data Processing, Real-Time, Streaming

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