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Amazon Cloud WAN

Amazon Cloud WAN is a managed wide area networking service that simplifies building, managing, and monitoring global WANs by connecting branch offices, data centers, and Amazon VPCs through a central dashboard with network policy automation and unified monitoring.

agent ready

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.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Amazon Cloud WAN the way a machine reads it — 41 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 Cloud WAN scores 57.1/100 (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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 57.1/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 8.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 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 Cloud WAN

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon Cloud WAN. 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 Cloud WAN API

API for building and managing global wide area networks, connecting branch offices, data centers, and VPCs with centralized control, monitoring, and network policy automation.

Amazon Cloud WAN Core Networks API

Operations for managing Cloud WAN core networks

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

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.

Centralized WAN Management

Build and manage global wide area networks through a single centralized dashboard.

Network Policy Automation

Automate management and security tasks across your entire WAN infrastructure.

Unified Monitoring

Monitor on-premises and AWS network health and performance from one view.

Network Segmentation

Isolate sensitive traffic from standard data flows with segmentation policies.

Global Connectivity

Connect branch offices, data centers, and VPCs with minimal configuration globally.

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 Cloud Wan Context

7 classes · 9 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 Cloud WAN API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Amazon Cloud WAN API Rules

23 rules · 12 errors · 10 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 6

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.

CoreNetwork

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateCoreNetworkRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateCoreNetworkResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteCoreNetworkResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetCoreNetworkResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListCoreNetworksResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 6

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.

Examples 6

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 4

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 Cloud Wan Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Amazon Cloud Wan Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Cloud Wan Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Amazon Cloud Wan Trust Center

PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

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 Cloud Wan Agentic Access

4 operations · 2 acting

4 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 3

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.

Global Enterprise WAN

Build globally distributed corporate WANs using AWS infrastructure.

Hybrid Network Extension

Extend on-premises corporate WANs into AWS cloud environments seamlessly.

Network Centralization

Centralize network configuration, monitoring, and automation across all locations.

Integrations 4

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

AWS Transit Gateway

Connect VPCs and on-premises networks through Transit Gateway attachments.

AWS Direct Connect

Dedicated network connections from on-premises to AWS.

Amazon VPC

Connect VPCs across regions into the global WAN.

AWS IAM

Control access to Cloud WAN resources with IAM policies.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Amazon Cloud WAN — 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 3

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 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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