AWS HealthLake

Amazon HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible, FHIR R4-compliant managed service for importing, transforming, storing, and querying health data from patients and clinical systems. It provides a transactional FHIR server with bulk import/export, medical NLP for unstructured data extraction, SMART on FHIR authorization, and integration with AWS analytics services.

AWS HealthLake publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Datastore API, Export API, Import API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Healthcare, FHIR, Health Data, Clinical Data, and HIPAA.

The AWS HealthLake catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

AWS HealthLake’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, pricing, getting-started guide, developer console, CLI, and 18 more developer resources.

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55.7/100 developing ▼ -6.2 Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessPaidSelf serve

8 APIs

HealthcareFHIRHealth DataClinical DataHIPAAInteroperabilityNLPMedicalHL7

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Composite quality — 55.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 17.2 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 12.6 / 20

Commercial Clarity 11.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 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

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APIs 8

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

GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Aws Healthlake Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 36

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

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Examples 13

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Console

Console

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

SDKs

SDKs

CLI

CLI

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Compliance

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Forums

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Partners

Partners

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

PrivateLink

PrivateLink

Source (apis.yml)

name: AWS HealthLake
description: Amazon HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible, FHIR R4-compliant managed service for importing, transforming, storing,
  and querying health data from patients and clinical systems. It provides a transactional FHIR server with bulk import/export,
  medical NLP for unstructured data extraction, SMART on FHIR authorization, and integration with AWS analytics services.
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/aws-healthlake.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aws-healthlake/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
aid: aws-healthlake
type: Index
tags:
- Healthcare
- FHIR
- Health Data
- Clinical Data
- HIPAA
- Interoperability
- NLP
- Medical
- HL7
- AWS
apis:
- name: AWS HealthLake FHIR Import API
  description: Asynchronous bulk import API for loading FHIR R4 resources from Amazon S3 into a HealthLake data store. Supports
    starting, describing, and listing import jobs with up to 1 million files and 5 TB total per job.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_StartFHIRImportJob.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Import
  - Bulk Data
  - FHIR
  - S3
  - Async
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_StartFHIRImportJob.html
- name: AWS HealthLake FHIR Export API
  description: Asynchronous bulk export API for exporting FHIR R4 resources from a HealthLake data store to Amazon S3. Supports
    starting, describing, listing, and canceling export jobs, and exporting to analytics-ready formats for use with Amazon
    Athena.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_StartFHIRExportJob.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Export
  - Bulk Data
  - FHIR
  - S3
  - Analytics
  - Athena
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_StartFHIRExportJob.html
- name: AWS HealthLake FHIR R4 Server API
  description: Transactional FHIR R4 server endpoints for reading, writing, searching, and validating FHIR resources within
    a data store. Supports SMART on FHIR authorization, FHIR Bulk Data Access, US Core IG, HL7 SMART App Launch Framework,
    OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect. Also includes FHIR Subscriptions via Amazon EventBridge and REST-Hook.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/working-with-FHIR-healthlake.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - FHIR R4
  - Read
  - Write
  - Search
  - Validate
  - SMART on FHIR
  - OAuth 2.0
  - Subscriptions
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/working-with-FHIR-healthlake.html
- name: AWS HealthLake Resource Tagging API
  description: API operations for adding, listing, and removing tags on HealthLake resources such as data stores. Supports
    up to 200 tags per resource for cost allocation and resource management.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_TagResource.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Tags
  - Resource Management
  - Cost Allocation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_TagResource.html
- aid: aws-healthlake:aws-healthlake-datastore-api
  name: AWS HealthLake Datastore API
  description: Operations for creating, describing, listing, and deleting FHIR R4 data stores
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Datastore
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aws-healthlake-datastore-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/aws-healthlake-graphql.md
- aid: aws-healthlake:aws-healthlake-export-api
  name: AWS HealthLake Export API
  description: Asynchronous bulk export operations for exporting FHIR resources to Amazon S3
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Export
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aws-healthlake-export-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/aws-healthlake-graphql.md
- aid: aws-healthlake:aws-healthlake-import-api
  name: AWS HealthLake Import API
  description: Asynchronous bulk import operations for loading FHIR resources from Amazon S3
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Import
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aws-healthlake-import-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/aws-healthlake-graphql.md
- aid: aws-healthlake:aws-healthlake-tags-api
  name: AWS HealthLake Tags API
  description: Resource tagging operations for cost allocation and resource management
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
  baseURL: https://healthlake.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Tags
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aws-healthlake-tags-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/aws-healthlake-graphql.md
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/aws-healthlake/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/aws-healthlake-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/aws-healthlake-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/aws-healthlake-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/aws-healthlake-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/aws-healthlake-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/healthlake/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/what-is-amazon-health-lake.html
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
- type: Pricing
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/healthlake/pricing/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/getting-started-amazon-health-lake.html
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
- type: Console
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/home
- type: SDKs
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/tools/
- type: CLI
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/healthlake/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/releases.html
- type: Authentication
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/security-iam.html
- type: Compliance
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/
- type: PrivateLink
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/healthlake/latest/devguide/vpc-endpoints.html
- type: Plans
  url: plans/aws-healthlake-plans.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/aws-healthlake-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/aws-healthlake-finops.yml
- type: Partners
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/healthlake/partners/
- type: Forums
  url: https://repost.aws/tags/questions/TAFhiamjeiTUCXp3LbfpEJhw/aws-health-lake
- url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/feed/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com