Amazon Athena
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Amazon Athena the way a machine reads it — 340 machine-readable artifacts across 8 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Amazon Athena scores 47.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Amazon Athena
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon Athena. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 8
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Amazon Athena Data Catalogs API
Operations for managing data catalogs
Amazon Athena Databases API
Operations for listing databases in a data catalog
Amazon Athena Named Queries API
Operations for creating and managing saved SQL queries
Amazon Athena Prepared Statements API
Operations for managing prepared SQL statements
Amazon Athena Query Executions API
Operations for running and managing SQL query executions
Amazon Athena Table Metadata API
Operations for listing and getting table metadata
Amazon Athena Tags API
Operations for managing resource tags
Amazon Athena Work Groups API
Operations for managing Athena work groups
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Amazon Athena API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Amazon Athena Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Amazon Athena Finops
FINOPSFeatures 10
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Amazon Athena Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Amazon Athena API Rules
SPECTRALAmazon Athena API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 99
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Amazon Athena Query Execution
JSON SCHEMAAthenaError
JSON SCHEMABatchGetNamedQueryInput
JSON SCHEMABatchGetNamedQueryOutput
JSON SCHEMABatchGetQueryExecutionInput
JSON SCHEMABatchGetQueryExecutionOutput
JSON SCHEMAColumnInfo
JSON SCHEMAColumn
JSON SCHEMACreateDataCatalogInput
JSON SCHEMACreateDataCatalogOutput
JSON SCHEMACreateNamedQueryInput
JSON SCHEMACreateNamedQueryOutput
JSON SCHEMACreatePreparedStatementInput
JSON SCHEMACreatePreparedStatementOutput
JSON SCHEMACreateWorkGroupInput
JSON SCHEMACreateWorkGroupOutput
JSON SCHEMADataCatalog
JSON SCHEMADataCatalogSummary
JSON SCHEMADatabase
JSON SCHEMADatum
JSON SCHEMADeleteDataCatalogInput
JSON SCHEMADeleteDataCatalogOutput
JSON SCHEMADeleteNamedQueryInput
JSON SCHEMADeleteNamedQueryOutput
JSON SCHEMADeletePreparedStatementInput
JSON SCHEMADeletePreparedStatementOutput
JSON SCHEMADeleteWorkGroupInput
JSON SCHEMADeleteWorkGroupOutput
JSON SCHEMAEncryptionConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAEngineVersion
JSON SCHEMAGetDataCatalogInput
JSON SCHEMAGetDataCatalogOutput
JSON SCHEMAGetDatabaseInput
JSON SCHEMAGetDatabaseOutput
JSON SCHEMAGetNamedQueryInput
JSON SCHEMAGetNamedQueryOutput
JSON SCHEMAGetPreparedStatementInput
JSON SCHEMAGetPreparedStatementOutput
JSON SCHEMAGetQueryExecutionInput
JSON SCHEMAGetQueryExecutionOutput
JSON SCHEMAGetQueryResultsInput
JSON SCHEMAGetQueryResultsOutput
JSON SCHEMAGetQueryRuntimeStatisticsInput
JSON SCHEMAGetQueryRuntimeStatisticsOutput
JSON SCHEMAGetTableMetadataInput
JSON SCHEMAGetTableMetadataOutput
JSON SCHEMAGetWorkGroupInput
JSON SCHEMAGetWorkGroupOutput
JSON SCHEMAListDataCatalogsInput
JSON SCHEMAListDataCatalogsOutput
JSON SCHEMAListDatabasesInput
JSON SCHEMAListDatabasesOutput
JSON SCHEMAListNamedQueriesInput
JSON SCHEMAListNamedQueriesOutput
JSON SCHEMAListPreparedStatementsInput
JSON SCHEMAListPreparedStatementsOutput
JSON SCHEMAListQueryExecutionsInput
JSON SCHEMAListQueryExecutionsOutput
JSON SCHEMAListTableMetadataInput
JSON SCHEMAListTableMetadataOutput
JSON SCHEMAListTagsForResourceInput
JSON SCHEMAListTagsForResourceOutput
JSON SCHEMAListWorkGroupsInput
JSON SCHEMAListWorkGroupsOutput
JSON SCHEMANamedQuery
JSON SCHEMAPreparedStatement
JSON SCHEMAPreparedStatementSummary
JSON SCHEMAQueryExecutionContext
JSON SCHEMAQueryExecution
JSON SCHEMAQueryExecutionStatistics
JSON SCHEMAQueryExecutionStatus
JSON SCHEMAQueryRuntimeStatisticsRows
JSON SCHEMAQueryRuntimeStatistics
JSON SCHEMAQueryRuntimeStatisticsTimeline
JSON SCHEMAQueryStagePlanNode
JSON SCHEMAQueryStage
JSON SCHEMAResultConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAResultConfigurationUpdates
JSON SCHEMAResultSetMetadata
JSON SCHEMAResultSet
JSON SCHEMARow
JSON SCHEMAStartQueryExecutionInput
JSON SCHEMAStartQueryExecutionOutput
JSON SCHEMAStopQueryExecutionInput
JSON SCHEMAStopQueryExecutionOutput
JSON SCHEMATableMetadata
JSON SCHEMATagResourceInput
JSON SCHEMATagResourceOutput
JSON SCHEMATag
JSON SCHEMAUnprocessedNamedQueryId
JSON SCHEMAUnprocessedQueryExecutionId
JSON SCHEMAUntagResourceInput
JSON SCHEMAUntagResourceOutput
JSON SCHEMAUpdateWorkGroupInput
JSON SCHEMAUpdateWorkGroupOutput
JSON SCHEMAWorkGroupConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAWorkGroupConfigurationUpdates
JSON SCHEMAWorkGroup
JSON SCHEMAWorkGroupSummary
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JSON Structure 98
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Athena Athena Error Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Batch Get Named Query Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Batch Get Named Query Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Batch Get Query Execution Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Batch Get Query Execution Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Column Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Column Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Create Data Catalog Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Create Data Catalog Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Create Named Query Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Create Named Query Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Create Prepared Statement Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Create Prepared Statement Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Create Work Group Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Create Work Group Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Data Catalog Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Data Catalog Summary Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Database Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Datum Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Delete Data Catalog Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Delete Data Catalog Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Delete Named Query Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Delete Named Query Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Delete Prepared Statement Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Delete Prepared Statement Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Delete Work Group Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Delete Work Group Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Encryption Configuration Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Engine Version Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Data Catalog Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Data Catalog Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Database Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Database Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Named Query Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Named Query Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Prepared Statement Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Prepared Statement Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Query Execution Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Query Execution Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Query Results Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Query Results Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Query Runtime Statistics Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Query Runtime Statistics Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Table Metadata Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Table Metadata Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Work Group Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Get Work Group Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena List Data Catalogs Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena List Data Catalogs Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena List Databases Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena List Databases Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena List Named Queries Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena List Named Queries Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena List Prepared Statements Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena List Prepared Statements Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena List Query Executions Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena List Query Executions Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena List Table Metadata Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena List Table Metadata Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena List Tags For Resource Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena List Tags For Resource Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena List Work Groups Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena List Work Groups Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Named Query Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Prepared Statement Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Prepared Statement Summary Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Query Execution Context Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Query Execution Statistics Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Query Execution Status Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Query Execution Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Query Runtime Statistics Rows Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Query Runtime Statistics Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Query Runtime Statistics Timeline Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Query Stage Plan Node Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Query Stage Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Result Configuration Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Result Configuration Updates Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Result Set Metadata Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Result Set Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Row Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Start Query Execution Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Start Query Execution Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Stop Query Execution Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Stop Query Execution Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Table Metadata Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Tag Resource Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Tag Resource Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Tag Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Unprocessed Named Query Id Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Unprocessed Query Execution Id Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Untag Resource Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Untag Resource Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Update Work Group Input Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Update Work Group Output Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Work Group Configuration Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Work Group Configuration Updates Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Work Group Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAthena Work Group Summary Structure
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Examples 98
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Athena Athena Error Example
EXAMPLEAthena Column Example
EXAMPLEAthena Column Info Example
EXAMPLEAthena Data Catalog Example
EXAMPLEAthena Database Example
EXAMPLEAthena Datum Example
EXAMPLEAthena Named Query Example
EXAMPLEAthena Query Stage Example
EXAMPLEAthena Result Set Example
EXAMPLEAthena Row Example
EXAMPLEAthena Tag Example
EXAMPLEAthena Work Group Example
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Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 6
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Integrations 10
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
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Resources
Every other property we hold for Amazon Athena — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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