# AWS Lambda

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/aws-lambda/  
**APIs profiled:** 12

AWS Lambda is a serverless, event-driven compute service that lets you run code for virtually any type of application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers. Lambda runs your code on high-availability compute infrastructure and performs all of the administration of the compute resources, including server and operating system maintenance, capacity provisioning and automatic scaling, and logging.

## Kin Score — 53.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 53.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 83.3 |
| Contract Quality | 82.7 |
| Governance | 45.5 |
| Contract Governance | 45.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 52.6 |
| Access Clarity | 52.6 |

## Agent readiness — 49.8 (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 | derived |
| 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 (12)

- **AWS Lambda Extensions API** — The Lambda Extensions API enables you to create extensions that integrate with the Lambda execution environment lifecycle. Extensions can run as companion processes alongside yo...
- **AWS Lambda Telemetry API** — The Lambda Telemetry API lets you collect telemetry data directly from the Lambda execution environment. Extensions can subscribe to telemetry streams for platform telemetry, fu...
- **AWS Lambda Runtime API** — The Lambda Runtime API enables you to use custom runtimes to run functions in any programming language. The runtime API provides an HTTP API for custom runtimes to receive invoc...
- **AWS Lambda Logs API** — The Lambda Logs API enables extensions to subscribe to log streams generated by the Lambda platform, function code, and extensions within the execution environment, providing ac...
- **AWS Lambda Aliases API** — Create named pointers to function versions with routing configuration
- **AWS Lambda Concurrency API** — Manage reserved and provisioned concurrency settings for functions
- **AWS Lambda Event Source Mappings API** — Map event sources such as Amazon SQS, Kinesis, and DynamoDB Streams to Lambda functions for automatic invocation
- **AWS Lambda Function URL API** — Configure dedicated HTTPS endpoints for Lambda functions that can be invoked directly via HTTP
- **AWS Lambda Functions API** — Create, configure, invoke, and manage Lambda functions
- **AWS Lambda Layers API** — Manage Lambda layers that package libraries, custom runtimes, and other dependencies for sharing across functions
- **AWS Lambda Tags API** — The Tags API from AWS Lambda — 1 operation(s) for tags.
- **AWS Lambda Versions API** — Publish and manage immutable function versions

## MCP servers (1)

- **AWS Lambda MCP Server** — Official AWS Labs MCP server that turns AWS Lambda functions into MCP tools. It acts as a bridge between MCP clients and Lambda, letting generative-AI models select and invoke L...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Aws Lambda Agentic Access** — 38 operations · 23 acting

## Security (4)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Aws Lambda Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **Real-Time File Processing** — Automatically process files uploaded to S3, such as image resizing, video transcoding, or document indexing.
- **Real-Time Stream Processing** — Process real-time streaming data from Kinesis or DynamoDB Streams for analytics, monitoring, or ETL pipelines.
- **Web Application Backends** — Build scalable API backends using Lambda with API Gateway or Function URLs for web and mobile applications.
- **IoT Backends** — Process IoT device data from AWS IoT Core for device management, telemetry analysis, and alerting.
- **Scheduled Tasks** — Run periodic tasks like database cleanup, report generation, or data synchronization using EventBridge rules.
- **CI/CD Automation** — Automate build, test, and deployment workflows by triggering Lambda functions from CodePipeline or GitHub events.

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