Amazon Certificate Manager
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) handles the complexity of creating, storing, and renewing public and private SSL/TLS X.509 certificates and keys that protect your AWS websites and applications, enabling you to manage certificate lifecycles centrally.
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 Certificate Manager the way a machine reads it — 35 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 Certificate Manager scores 57.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). 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 Certificate Manager
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon Certificate Manager. 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 1
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 Certificate Manager Certificates API
Operations for requesting, describing, and managing SSL/TLS certificates
Features 5
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.
Automated Certificate Renewal
Managed renewal for Amazon-issued SSL/TLS certificates, reducing manual maintenance overhead.
Public and Private Certificates
Provision both public certificates validated via DNS or email, and private certificates issued by a private CA.
FIPS-Compliant Key Storage
Strong encryption and key management best practices for protecting and storing private keys.
Integrated AWS Service Deployment
Deploy certificates to CloudFront, Elastic Load Balancing, API Gateway, and other integrated AWS services at no cost.
Hybrid and Multicloud Support
Provision and manage certificates for EC2, containers, on-premises hosts, and multicloud workloads.
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.
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 Certificate Manager API Rules
SPECTRALAmazon Certificate Manager API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 5
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 Certificate Manager Certificate
JSON SCHEMADescribeCertificateResponse
JSON SCHEMAListCertificatesResponse
JSON SCHEMARequestCertificateRequest
JSON SCHEMARequestCertificateResponse
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 4
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.
Certificate Manager List Certificates Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 4
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.
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 4
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.
Website Protection
Securely terminate HTTPS traffic to public websites and web applications using ACM certificates.
Internal Service Security
Protect private network communication between servers, mobile devices, IoT devices, and internal applications.
Uptime Maintenance
Automated certificate lifecycle management prevents certificate expiration-related service downtime.
Compliance and Audit
Centralize certificate management to meet compliance requirements and simplify security audits.
Integrations 5
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 CloudFront
Deploy ACM certificates to CloudFront distributions for HTTPS content delivery.
Elastic Load Balancing
Attach ACM certificates to Application, Network, and Classic Load Balancers.
Amazon API Gateway
Use ACM certificates for custom domain names in API Gateway.
AWS IAM
Control access to ACM operations via IAM policies and roles.
AWS CloudTrail
Audit all ACM API calls via CloudTrail for compliance and security monitoring.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Amazon Certificate Manager — 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.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 4
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 6
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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