Amazon EBS
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. EBS volumes are highly available and reliable storage volumes that can be attached to any running instance in the same Availability Zone, offering consistent and low-latency performance for workloads that require persistent storage.
Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.
API Evangelist profiles Amazon EBS the way a machine reads it — 45 machine-readable artifacts across 6 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 EBS scores 72.0/100 (exemplar), 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.
How we profile Amazon EBS
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon EBS. 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 6
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 EBS Amazon EBS Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) API API
The Amazon EBS Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) API API from Amazon EBS — 1 operation(s) for amazon ebs amazon elastic block store (ebs) api.
Amazon EBS #AttachVolume API
The #AttachVolume API from Amazon EBS — 1 operation(s) for #attachvolume.
Amazon EBS #CreateSnapshot API
The #CreateSnapshot API from Amazon EBS — 1 operation(s) for #createsnapshot.
Amazon EBS #DeleteVolume API
The #DeleteVolume API from Amazon EBS — 1 operation(s) for #deletevolume.
Amazon EBS #DescribeSnapshots API
The #DescribeSnapshots API from Amazon EBS — 1 operation(s) for #describesnapshots.
Amazon EBS #DetachVolume API
The #DetachVolume API from Amazon EBS — 1 operation(s) for #detachvolume.
Postman Collections 1
A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
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 EBS Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) API
OPEN COLLECTIONArazzo Workflows 6
Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
Amazon EBS Clone Volume via Snapshot
Snapshot a source volume, confirm it, then create a clone volume from it.
ARAZZOAmazon EBS Detach and Delete Volume
Detach an EBS volume from its instance, confirm it, then delete it.
ARAZZOAmazon EBS Inventory Volumes and Snapshots
Page through EBS volumes and snapshots to build a storage inventory.
ARAZZOAmazon EBS Provision and Attach Volume
Create an EBS volume, confirm it is available, then attach it to an instance.
ARAZZOAmazon EBS Restore Volume from Snapshot
Locate a snapshot, create a volume from it, and attach the volume.
ARAZZOAmazon EBS Snapshot and Verify Volume
Take a snapshot of an EBS volume and confirm the snapshot is visible.
ARAZZOPricing 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 Ebs 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 Ebs Finops
FINOPSFeatures 6
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.
Multiple Volume Types
Choose from gp3, gp2, io2, io1, st1, sc1, and io2 Block Express volumes optimized for different workloads.
EBS Snapshots
Point-in-time backups stored in Amazon S3 for disaster recovery, migration, and data sharing.
Encryption
AES-256 encryption at rest and in transit using AWS KMS customer-managed or AWS-managed keys.
Elastic Volumes
Dynamically modify volume size, performance, and type without detaching from instances.
Data Lifecycle Manager
Automate snapshot creation, retention, deletion, and cross-account sharing with policy-based management.
Multi-Attach
Attach a single io2 volume to up to 16 EC2 instances simultaneously for high availability.
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 Ebs 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 EBS API Rules
SPECTRALAmazon EBS API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 3
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.
JSON Structure 3
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.
Amazon Ebs Volume Structure
JSON STRUCTUREEbs Openapi Describe Volumes Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREEbs Openapi Volume Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 3
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.
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 5
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.
Relational Databases
High-performance persistent storage for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server databases.
NoSQL Databases
Low-latency block storage for MongoDB, Cassandra, and other NoSQL workloads.
Enterprise Applications
SAN workload migration for I/O-intensive SAP, Oracle, and other enterprise applications.
Big Data Analytics
Resizable storage for Hadoop, Spark, and other big data cluster deployments.
Boot Volumes
OS and application boot volumes for all EC2 instance types.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Amazon EBS — 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 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 8
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Scroll within the panel for all 8 ·
Build 2
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 1
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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