# Amazon DynamoDB

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/dynamodb/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/  
**APIs profiled:** 14

A fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability.

## Kin Score — 43.0 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 43.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 74.1 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 19.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

## Agent readiness — 37.2 (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 | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

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

## APIs (14)

- **Amazon DynamoDB Streams API** — API for capturing and processing change data from DynamoDB tables in near real-time, providing time-ordered sequences of item-level modifications.
- **Amazon DynamoDB Backups API** — Operations for creating, describing, listing, and deleting on-demand backups
- **Amazon DynamoDB Batch Operations API** — Operations for reading and writing multiple items in batch
- **Amazon DynamoDB Exports API** — Operations for exporting table data to Amazon S3
- **Amazon DynamoDB Imports API** — Operations for importing data from Amazon S3 into DynamoDB tables
- **Amazon DynamoDB Items API** — Operations for reading and writing individual items in DynamoDB tables
- **Amazon DynamoDB #ListTagsOfResource API** — The #ListTagsOfResource API from Amazon DynamoDB — 1 operation(s) for #listtagsofresource.
- **Amazon DynamoDB PartiQL API** — Execute SQL-compatible PartiQL statements against DynamoDB tables
- **Amazon DynamoDB Queries API** — Operations for querying and scanning items in DynamoDB tables
- **Amazon DynamoDB Tables API** — Operations for creating, describing, updating, listing, and deleting DynamoDB tables
- **Amazon DynamoDB #TagResource API** — The #TagResource API from Amazon DynamoDB — 1 operation(s) for #tagresource.
- **Amazon DynamoDB Transactions API** — Transactional read and write operations across multiple items and tables
- **Amazon DynamoDB TTL API** — Time to Live configuration for automatic item expiration
- **Amazon DynamoDB #UntagResource API** — The #UntagResource API from Amazon DynamoDB — 1 operation(s) for #untagresource.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Dynamodb Agentic Access** — 28 operations · 28 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (4)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Dynamodb Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (4)

- **Serverless Application Backend** — Use as the data layer for serverless architectures with Lambda and API Gateway.
- **Gaming Leaderboards** — Store and query player data, session state, and leaderboards with consistent low latency.
- **IoT Data Storage** — Ingest and query high-volume time-series data from IoT devices at scale.
- **E-Commerce Shopping Cart** — Store shopping cart and session data with high availability and automatic scaling.

## Tags

Cloud, Database, Document Store, Key-Value, Managed Service, NoSQL, Serverless

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