# Amazon Rekognition

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-rekognition/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/  
**APIs profiled:** 10

Amazon Rekognition is a cloud-based computer vision service that makes it easy to add image and video analysis to your applications, providing capabilities such as object and scene detection, facial analysis, face comparison, celebrity recognition, text detection, content moderation, custom labels, face liveness detection, and streaming video analysis using deep learning technology.

## Kin Score — 55.3 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 55.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 87.0 |
| Contract Quality | 32.3 |
| Governance | 41.7 |
| Contract Governance | 41.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 52.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 57.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 76.3 |
| Access Clarity | 76.3 |

## Agent readiness — 48.5 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| 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 | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

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

## APIs (10)

- **Amazon Rekognition Celebrity Recognition API** — Identify celebrities in images and videos.
- **Amazon Rekognition Content Moderation API** — Detect inappropriate or explicit content.
- **Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels API** — Train and use custom image classifiers.
- **Amazon Rekognition Face Collections API** — Create and manage searchable face collections.
- **Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness API** — Verify that a user is physically present during identity verification.
- **Amazon Rekognition Face Search API** — Search for matching faces within collections.
- **Amazon Rekognition Facial Analysis API** — Detect and analyze faces with detailed attributes.
- **Amazon Rekognition Image Analysis API** — Detect labels, objects, scenes, and concepts in images.
- **Amazon Rekognition Stored Video Analysis API** — Asynchronous analysis of videos stored in Amazon S3.
- **Amazon Rekognition Text Detection API** — Detect and extract text from images and videos.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Amazon Rekognition MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Rekognition Agentic Access** — 15 operations · 15 acting

## Security (4)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Rekognition Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (9)

- **Identity Verification** — Verify user identities by comparing selfies to ID documents or previously stored face images for onboarding and authentication.
- **Content Moderation** — Automatically moderate user-generated content on platforms to detect and filter explicit or inappropriate imagery.
- **Searchable Media Libraries** — Build searchable image and video archives by automatically tagging media with detected labels, faces, and text.
- **Workplace Safety Compliance** — Monitor camera feeds to detect whether workers are wearing required personal protective equipment in industrial settings.
- **Fraud Prevention** — Prevent identity fraud during digital onboarding by using face liveness detection to confirm real users.
- **Smart Retail Analytics** — Analyze in-store camera feeds to track customer behavior, measure foot traffic, and optimize product placement.
- **Public Safety and Security** — Search video archives for persons of interest by comparing faces against a known collection.
- **Media and Entertainment** — Automatically tag celebrities in photos and videos for media companies to improve content discoverability.
- **Custom Object Detection** — Train custom classifiers to detect proprietary products, logos, brand assets, or industry-specific objects.

## Tags

Celebrity Recognition, Computer-Vision, Content Moderation, Custom Labels, Deep Learning, Face Liveness, Facial Recognition, Image Analysis, Machine-Learning, Object Detection, Text Detection, Video Analysis

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