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Amazon Aurora DSQL

Amazon Aurora DSQL is a distributed SQL database service optimized for transactional workloads. It provides a serverless, fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database with built-in high availability, scalability, and global distribution capabilities.

agent ready

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Amazon Aurora DSQL the way a machine reads it — 92 machine-readable artifacts across 2 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 Aurora DSQL scores 37.4/100 (thin), 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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 37.4/100 · thin
Contract Quality 18.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
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 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

How we profile Amazon Aurora DSQL

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon Aurora DSQL. 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 2

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 Aurora DSQL Clusters API

Operations for creating and managing Aurora DSQL clusters

Amazon Aurora DSQL Multi-Region Clusters API

Operations for managing multi-region cluster configurations

Features 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.

Serverless PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database
Automatic scaling with no database instances to manage
Multi-region active-active replication for global distribution
Built-in high availability with automatic failover
Pay-per-use pricing based on I/O and storage
Standard PostgreSQL client compatibility
Transactional consistency across distributed nodes
Integrated with AWS IAM for authentication
Automatic software patching and maintenance
Point-in-time recovery with continuous backups

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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 Aurora Dsql Context

4 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral 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 Aurora DSQL API Rules

4 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Amazon Aurora DSQL API Rules

17 rules · 6 errors · 9 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 19

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.

ClusterStatus

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClusterSummary

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateClusterInput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateClusterOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateMultiRegionClustersInput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateMultiRegionClustersOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteClusterOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteMultiRegionClustersInput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteMultiRegionClustersOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetClusterEndpointOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetClusterOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LinkedClusterProperties

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListClustersOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListTagsForResourceOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TagResourceInput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TagResourceOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UntagResourceOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateClusterInput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateClusterOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 19

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.

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Examples 19

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.

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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.

Amazon Aurora Dsql Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Amazon Aurora Dsql Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Aurora Dsql Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

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.

Amazon Aurora Dsql Agentic Access

11 operations · 7 acting

11 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

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.

Build globally distributed transactional applications
Run PostgreSQL workloads without managing instances
Deploy active-active multi-region database architectures
Migrate PostgreSQL applications to serverless infrastructure
Build applications requiring strong consistency at global scale
Implement high-throughput transactional microservices

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.

Amazon VPC
AWS IAM
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon RDS
AWS KMS
Amazon Route 53
AWS PrivateLink
Amazon S3
AWS Secrets Manager

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Resources

Every other property we hold for Amazon Aurora DSQL — 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 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

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