# Amazon S3

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-s3/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 17

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is an object storage service offering industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

## Kin Score — 60.7 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 60.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 85.2 |
| Contract Quality | 75.6 |
| Governance | 26.5 |
| Contract Governance | 26.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 52.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 57.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 59.2 |
| Access Clarity | 59.2 |

## Agent readiness — 44.4 (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 | 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 (17)

- **Amazon S3 Tables API** — Amazon S3 Tables API provides operations for managing table buckets and tables stored in Apache Iceberg format, enabling structured tabular data storage in Apache Parquet format...
- **Amazon S3 Access Control API** — Operations for managing bucket and object access control lists (ACLs)
- **Amazon S3 Access Grants API** — Operations for S3 Access Grants management
- **Amazon S3 Access Points API** — Operations for creating and managing S3 access points
- **Amazon S3 Batch Operations API** — Operations for creating and managing S3 Batch Operations jobs
- **Amazon S3 Bucket Configuration API** — Operations for managing bucket-level configuration such as versioning, lifecycle, CORS, and encryption
- **Amazon S3 Buckets API** — Operations for creating, listing, and managing S3 buckets
- **Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points API** — Operations for Multi-Region Access Points
- **Amazon S3 Multipart Upload API** — Operations for multipart upload of large objects
- **Amazon S3 Namespaces API** — Operations for managing namespaces within table buckets
- **Amazon S3 Objects API** — Operations for uploading, downloading, copying, and deleting objects
- **Amazon S3 Public Access Block API** — Operations for managing public access block settings
- **Amazon S3 Storage Lens API** — Operations for S3 Storage Lens configurations
- **Amazon S3 Table Buckets API** — Operations for creating and managing S3 table buckets
- **Amazon S3 Table Maintenance API** — Operations for managing table maintenance configurations
- **Amazon S3 Table Policy API** — Operations for managing table and table bucket policies
- **Amazon S3 Tagging API** — Operations for managing bucket and object tags

## MCP servers (1)

- **Amazon S3 MCP Server** — AWS Labs publishes an official Model Context Protocol server for the Amazon S3 Tables surface (awslabs.s3-tables-mcp-server), distributed on PyPI and run locally over stdio via ...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon S3 Agentic Access** — 82 operations · 48 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (4)

- **Amazon S3 Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Amazon S3 Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon S3 Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Amazon S3 Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon S3 Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **Storing and serving static website content**
- **Data lake foundation for analytics workloads**
- **Backup and disaster recovery storage**
- **Archive storage with Glacier integration**
- **Hosting machine learning training datasets**
- **Storing application logs and audit trails**

## Tags

Archive, Backup, Cloud Storage, Data Storage, Object Storage, Scalable Storage

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-s3/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.