Amazon Shield

AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. It provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency, with two tiers of protection - Shield Standard for automatic defense against common attacks and Shield Advanced for enhanced detection and 24/7 access to the DDoS Response Team.

Amazon Shield publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Amazon Shield REST API, Shield Application Layer Automatic Response API, Shield Operations API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Amazon Web Services, DDoS Protection, Networking, and Security.

The Amazon Shield catalog on APIs.io includes 2 JSON-LD contexts and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Amazon Shield’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, support, signup flow, code examples, and 67 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Profile data on GitHub

59.9/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 27/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessPaid

1 published contract

Amazon Web Services DDoS Protection Networking Security

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Cybersecurity Management

BC-620

amazon-shield-amazon-shield-rest-api-apiamazon-shield-application-layer-automatic-response-apiamazon-shield-operations-apiamazon-shield-protection-group-api

POST /#EnableApplicationLayerAutomaticResponse POST /#AssociateProactiveEngagementDetails POST /#ListAttacks POST /#DescribeAttackStatistics

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 59.9/100 · strong

Contract Quality 12.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 7.3 / 15

Access Clarity 12.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 3.6 / 10

Contract Governance 2.5 / 9

Discoverability 4.3 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.3 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 27/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 48.8 — up to +10.2 composite points
Contract Governance scores 27.3 — up to +8.7 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 36.8 — up to +8.2 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Network Edge (CDN, networking, peering, edge compute)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Amazon Shield Amazon Shield REST API

The Amazon Shield REST API API from Amazon Shield — 1 operation(s) for amazon shield rest api.

Amazon Shield Shield Application Layer Automatic Response API

The Shield Application Layer Automatic Response API from Amazon Shield — 3 operation(s) for shield application layer automatic response.

Amazon Shield Shield Operations API

The Shield Operations API from Amazon Shield — 19 operation(s) for shield operations.

Amazon Shield Shield Protection Group API

The Shield Protection Group API from Amazon Shield — 4 operation(s) for shield protection group.

Amazon Shield Shield Resource API

The Shield Resource API from Amazon Shield — 3 operation(s) for shield resource.

Postman Collections 7

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Amazon Shield REST Amazon Shield REST API API

POSTMAN

Amazon Shield REST Amazon Shield REST API #CreateProtectionGroup API

POSTMAN

Amazon Shield REST Amazon Shield REST API #CreateSubscription API

POSTMAN

Amazon Shield REST Amazon Shield REST API #DescribeAttack API

POSTMAN

Amazon Shield REST Amazon Shield REST API #DescribeProtection API

POSTMAN

Amazon Shield REST Amazon Shield REST API #DescribeSubscription API

POSTMAN

Amazon Shield REST Amazon Shield REST API #ListProtections API

POSTMAN

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Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Amazon Shield REST Amazon Shield REST API API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon Shield REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon Shield REST Amazon Shield REST API #CreateProtectionGroup API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon Shield REST Amazon Shield REST API #CreateSubscription API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon Shield REST Amazon Shield REST API #DescribeAttack API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon Shield REST Amazon Shield REST API #DescribeProtection API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon Shield REST Amazon Shield REST API #DescribeSubscription API

OPEN COLLECTION

Amazon Shield REST Amazon Shield REST API #ListProtections API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Amazon Shield API pricing

Prices published by Amazon Shield, read 2026-10-28 from aws.amazon.com/shield/pricing/.

Plan	Price
AWS Shield Standard	No additional cost Includes: Protection from common, most frequently occurring network and transport layer DDoS events; does not
AWS Shield Advanced	AWS Shield Advanced monthly fee of $3,000 per payer account Includes: Up to 50 billion AWS WAF requests per subscribed payer ID per calendar month; 1-year subscription co
AWS Shield Advanced Data Transfer Out - Amazon CloudFront / AWS Global Accelerat	$0.025 per GB

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Amazon Shield's documentation. All 5 limits →

Billed by: payer account · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Amazon Shield Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Amazon Shield Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Amazon Shield Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Amazon Shield

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Amazon Shield Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 2

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Amazon Shield Context

14 classes · 31 properties

JSON-LD

Amazon Shield Context

0 classes · 3 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Amazon Shield — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Amazon Shield API Rules

24 rules · 8 errors 15 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 15

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AttackDetail

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateProtectionGroupRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateProtectionRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateProtectionResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeAttackRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeAttackResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeProtectionRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeProtectionResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListProtectionsRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListProtectionsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Mitigation

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Protection

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SummarizedCounter

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tag

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Amazon Shield Protection

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 15

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Amazon Shield Api Attack Detail Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Shield Api Create Protection Group Request Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Shield Api Create Protection Request Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Shield Api Create Protection Response Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Shield Api Describe Attack Request Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Shield Api Describe Attack Response Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Shield Api Describe Protection Request Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Shield Api Describe Protection Response Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Shield Api List Protections Request Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Shield Api List Protections Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Shield Api Mitigation Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Shield Api Protection Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Shield Api Summarized Counter Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Shield Api Tag Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Shield Protection Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 15

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Amazon Shield Api Attack Detail Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Amazon Shield Api Create Protection Group Request Example

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Amazon Shield Api Create Protection Request Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Amazon Shield Api Create Protection Response Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Amazon Shield Api Describe Attack Request Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Amazon Shield Api Describe Attack Response Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Amazon Shield Api Describe Protection Request Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Amazon Shield Api Describe Protection Response Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Amazon Shield Api List Protections Request Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Amazon Shield Api List Protections Response Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Amazon Shield Api Mitigation Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Amazon Shield Api Protection Example

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Amazon Shield Api Summarized Counter Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Amazon Shield Api Tag Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Amazon Shield Protection Example

7 fields

EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Amazon Shield Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Amazon Shield Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Shield Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Amazon Shield Trust Center

PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Amazon Shield Agentic Access

7 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Portal

Signup

Login

Documentation 17

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

OpenAPI

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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 19

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

SpectralRules

Vocabulary

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Build 17

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

Examples

Examples

Examples

Examples

Examples

Examples

Examples

Examples

Examples

Examples

Examples

Examples

Examples

Examples

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Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

Support

StatusPage

Contact

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

name: Amazon Shield
description: AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications
  running on AWS. It provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and
  latency, with two tiers of protection - Shield Standard for automatic defense against common attacks and Shield Advanced
  for enhanced detection and 24/7 access to the DDoS Response Team.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://a0.awsstatic.com/libra-css/images/logos/aws_logo_smile_1200x630.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-shield/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-01-15'
modified: '2026-09-16'
apis:
- aid: amazon-shield:amazon-shield-amazon-shield-rest-api-api
  name: Amazon Shield Amazon Shield REST API
  description: The Amazon Shield REST API API from Amazon Shield — 1 operation(s) for amazon shield rest api.
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/shield/
  baseURL: https://shield.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Amazon Shield REST API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-shield-amazon-shield-rest-api-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/shield-chapter.html
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/shield/pricing/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/shield/getting-started/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/shield/faqs/
- aid: amazon-shield:amazon-shield-application-layer-automatic-response-api
  name: Amazon Shield Shield Application Layer Automatic Response API
  description: The Shield Application Layer Automatic Response API from Amazon Shield — 3 operation(s) for shield application
    layer automatic response.
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/shield/
  baseURL: https://shield.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Shield Application Layer Automatic Response
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-shield-application-layer-automatic-response-api-openapi.yml
- aid: amazon-shield:amazon-shield-operations-api
  name: Amazon Shield Shield Operations API
  description: The Shield Operations API from Amazon Shield — 19 operation(s) for shield operations.
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/shield/
  baseURL: https://shield.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Shield Operations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-shield-operations-api-openapi.yml
- aid: amazon-shield:amazon-shield-protection-group-api
  name: Amazon Shield Shield Protection Group API
  description: The Shield Protection Group API from Amazon Shield — 4 operation(s) for shield protection group.
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/shield/
  baseURL: https://shield.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Shield Protection Group
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-shield-protection-group-api-openapi.yml
- aid: amazon-shield:amazon-shield-resource-api
  name: Amazon Shield Shield Resource API
  description: The Shield Resource API from Amazon Shield — 3 operation(s) for shield resource.
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/shield/
  baseURL: https://shield.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Shield Resource
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-shield-resource-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/amazon-shield-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/amazon-shield-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/amazon-shield-finops.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/shield/
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/amazon-shield-capability-edges.yml
  name: Amazon Shield Business Capability Map
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/amazon-shield/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/amazon-shield-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/amazon-shield-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/amazon-shield-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/amazon-shield-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/amazon-shield-authentication.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/
- type: Portal
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/shield/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/shield-chapter.html
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
- type: Support
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/aws
- type: Portal
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/wafv2/shieldv2
- type: Signup
  url: https://signin.aws.amazon.com/signup?request_type=register
- type: Login
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/console/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
- type: Contact
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/amazon-shield-context-context.jsonld
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/amazon-shield-context.jsonld
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/amazon-shield-api-attack-detail-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/amazon-shield-api-create-protection-group-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/amazon-shield-api-create-protection-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/amazon-shield-api-create-protection-response-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/amazon-shield-api-describe-attack-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/amazon-shield-api-describe-attack-response-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/amazon-shield-api-describe-protection-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/amazon-shield-api-describe-protection-response-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/amazon-shield-api-list-protections-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/amazon-shield-api-list-protections-response-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/amazon-shield-api-mitigation-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/amazon-shield-api-protection-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/amazon-shield-api-summarized-counter-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/amazon-shield-api-tag-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/amazon-shield-protection-schema.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/amazon-shield-api-attack-detail-structure.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/amazon-shield-api-create-protection-group-request-structure.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/amazon-shield-api-create-protection-request-structure.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/amazon-shield-api-create-protection-response-structure.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/amazon-shield-api-describe-attack-request-structure.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/amazon-shield-api-describe-attack-response-structure.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/amazon-shield-api-describe-protection-request-structure.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/amazon-shield-api-describe-protection-response-structure.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/amazon-shield-api-list-protections-request-structure.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/amazon-shield-api-list-protections-response-structure.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/amazon-shield-api-mitigation-structure.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/amazon-shield-api-protection-structure.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/amazon-shield-api-summarized-counter-structure.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/amazon-shield-api-tag-structure.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/amazon-shield-protection-structure.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amazon-shield-api-attack-detail-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amazon-shield-api-create-protection-group-request-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amazon-shield-api-create-protection-request-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amazon-shield-api-create-protection-response-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amazon-shield-api-describe-attack-request-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amazon-shield-api-describe-attack-response-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amazon-shield-api-describe-protection-request-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amazon-shield-api-describe-protection-response-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amazon-shield-api-list-protections-request-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amazon-shield-api-list-protections-response-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amazon-shield-api-mitigation-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amazon-shield-api-protection-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amazon-shield-api-summarized-counter-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amazon-shield-api-tag-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amazon-shield-protection-example.json
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/amazon-shield-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/amazon-shield-vocabulary.yaml
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/amazon-shield-api-openapi.yml
- type: Integrations
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/partners/
integrations:
- name: Partner Programs
- name: Resources
- name: Success Stories
- name: Work with an AWS Partner
- name: AWS Marketplace
- name: AWS Partner Central
- name: Partner Paths
- name: co-sell with AWS
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
  url: https://apievangelist.com
tags:
- Amazon Web Services
- DDoS Protection
- Networking
- Security
tags_raw:
- AWS
- DDoS Protection
- Networking
- Security
x-parent: amazon-web-services
x-relationship: product

Amazon Shield API — frequently asked questions

Does Amazon Shield have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Amazon Shield, including Amazon Shield Amazon Shield REST API, Amazon Shield Shield Application Layer Automatic Response API and Amazon Shield Shield Operations API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Amazon Shield API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Amazon Shield, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Amazon Shield API?

Amazon Shield uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Amazon Shield Authentication.

How much does the Amazon Shield API cost?

Amazon Shield publishes its prices; its AWS Shield Standard plan is No additional cost as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Amazon Shield, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Amazon Shield API ready for AI agents?

Amazon Shield has a Kin Score of 59.9 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 26.5 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

Work with this as data

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find_providersBrowse and filter every provider in the catalog.
get_provider_artifactsEvery artifact this provider publishes, grouped by type.
get_provider_operationsEvery operation across all of their OpenAPIs — one call instead of parsing every spec.
get_provider_toolsEvery MCP tool they ship, with the operation each wraps.
get_provider_evidenceHow each part of their score was established. Free — the basis for a claim should not sit behind it.
get_provider_ratingPRO — composite, band, trend and facet scores.
apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.

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curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/amazon-shield"

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curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers?limit=25"

Every operation they expose

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/amazon-shield/operations?limit=25"

How their score was established

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/amazon-shield/evidence"

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