Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud, allowing you to launch virtual server instances, manage networking, and configure storage with complete control over your computing resources.
Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.
API Evangelist profiles Amazon EC2 the way a machine reads it — 71 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 EC2 scores 75.4/100 (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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Amazon EC2
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon EC2. 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 EC2 AMIs API
Operations for creating and managing Amazon Machine Images
Amazon EC2 Elastic IPs API
Operations for allocating and managing static IP addresses
Amazon EC2 Instances API
Operations for launching, managing, and terminating EC2 instances
Amazon EC2 Key Pairs API
Operations for managing SSH key pairs used for instance access
Amazon EC2 Launch Templates API
Operations for managing reusable instance launch configurations
Amazon EC2 Regions API
Operations for describing AWS regions and availability zones
Amazon EC2 Security Groups API
Operations for managing security group rules and firewall settings
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances API
Operations for requesting and managing Spot Instances
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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.
Amazon EC2 API
POSTMANOpen 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 EC2 API
OPEN COLLECTIONArazzo Workflows 19
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 EC2 Allocate and Associate Elastic IP
Allocate a VPC Elastic IP, confirm the instance is running, then associate the address.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Audit Security Group Usage
Describe a security group, then describe instances filtered by that group.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Bind Elastic IP to a New Instance
Launch an instance, poll until running, allocate an Elastic IP, then associate it.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Clone an Instance via Image
Create an AMI from a source instance, confirm it, then launch a clone from that AMI.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Deprovision a Secured Instance
Terminate an instance, wait until terminated, then delete its security group.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Deregister an AMI After Confirmation
Confirm an AMI exists, deregister it, then verify it is gone.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Harden an Existing Security Group
Look up a security group by name and add a scoped inbound rule to it.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Launch and Await Running
Launch an instance, then poll DescribeInstances until it reaches the running state.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Launch a Secured Instance
Create a security group, open SSH ingress, create a key pair, and launch an instance.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Inventory Instances Then Image First
Describe instances, page through with NextToken, then image the first instance found.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Place an Instance in an Availability Zone
Describe regions and availability zones, then launch an instance in a chosen zone.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Prepare Key and Launch
Create a key pair, confirm it via describe, then launch an instance using it.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Create a Launch Template and Boot From It
Create a launch template, confirm it, then launch an instance referencing the template parameters.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Release Elastic IP on Terminate
Terminate an instance, wait until terminated, then release its Elastic IP.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Request Spot Instances and Track
Request Spot Instances, then poll the Spot request until it is fulfilled.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Restart and Verify Instance
Reboot an instance and poll its status until checks report passed.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Rotate Key Pair
Verify a key pair exists, create its replacement, then delete the old key pair.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Stop and Create Image
Stop an instance, wait until stopped, then create an AMI from it.
ARAZZOAmazon EC2 Stop and Start Instance Cycle
Stop an instance, wait until stopped, then start it again and confirm running.
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Pricing 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 Ec2 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 Ec2 Finops
FINOPSFeatures 8
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.
Diverse Instance Types
Over 750 instance types optimized for compute, memory, storage, GPU, and inferencing workloads.
Amazon Machine Images
Pre-configured OS images for Windows, Linux, and macOS with custom and marketplace options.
Elastic IPs
Static IPv4 addresses that can be quickly remapped to different instances for fault tolerance.
Security Groups
Virtual firewalls to control inbound and outbound traffic to EC2 instances.
Spot Instances
Access spare EC2 capacity at up to 90% discount over On-Demand prices for flexible workloads.
Placement Groups
Control instance placement for low-latency cluster networking or high-availability distribution.
Launch Templates
Version-controlled configurations for launching EC2 instances with consistent settings.
Nitro System
Next-generation virtualization infrastructure delivering near bare-metal performance and security.
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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 Ec2 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 EC2 API Rules
SPECTRALAmazon EC2 API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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.
Amazon EC2 Instance
JSON SCHEMACreateImageResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeInstancesResponse
JSON SCHEMAInstance
JSON SCHEMARunInstancesResponse
JSON SCHEMATag
JSON SCHEMAJSON 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.
Amazon Ec2 Instance Structure
JSON STRUCTUREEc2 Openapi Create Image Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREEc2 Openapi Describe Instances Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREEc2 Openapi Instance Structure
JSON STRUCTUREEc2 Openapi Run Instances Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREEc2 Openapi Tag Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 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.
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.
Web Application Hosting
Deploy scalable web applications and APIs with full control over the compute environment.
Machine Learning Training
GPU-accelerated instances for deep learning model training and inference workloads.
High-Performance Computing
Cluster networking instances for computational fluid dynamics, genomics, and financial modeling.
SAP and Enterprise Workloads
Certified instances for SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA, and other enterprise database applications.
Development and Testing
Flexible on-demand compute for CI/CD pipelines, dev environments, and test automation.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Amazon EC2 — 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 21
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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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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