Amazon · Rate Limits

Amazon Rate Limits

Amazon (Web Services + Marketplace + Ads) rate limits are per-service. Each service publishes its own quotas and request rate limits.

Amazon Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Amazon on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring varies.

Limit state is signalled in the retryAfter response header, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled and throttledLegacy.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, Cloud + Commerce, and Cloud.

2 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 retryAfter
Method: generated, dated 2026-05-04.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04 and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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Rate LimitingCloud + CommerceCloud

Limits

Per-service quotas account/region/service
varies
see service-specific quotas page
Most services have account-level + per-region quotas + soft/hard limits.
Throttling account/region/service
varies
service-specific TPS / RPM
Backoff with exponential retry per AWS/GCP/Azure SDK best practices.

Policies

Soft vs hard limits
Soft limits can be raised via support tickets; hard limits cannot.
Exponential backoff
Standard SDK retry behavior with jitter.
Per-region scoping
Most quotas are per-region per-service per-account.

Sources

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Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

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Tools for rate limits

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  • find_rate_limitsBrowse and filter every rate limit in the catalog.
  • 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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Call it yourself

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This rate limit 
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All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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