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Amazon EKS

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes control plane or nodes. Amazon EKS runs upstream Kubernetes and is certified Kubernetes conformant, so you can use existing tools and plugins from partners and the Kubernetes community.

agent aware

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 EKS the way a machine reads it — 122 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 EKS scores 48.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 22/100 (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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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Amazon EKS Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Amazon EKS

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon EKS. 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 4

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 EKS Addons API

Operations for managing EKS add-ons

Amazon EKS Clusters API

Operations for managing EKS clusters

Amazon EKS Fargate Profiles API

Operations for managing EKS Fargate profiles

Amazon EKS Node Groups API

Operations for managing EKS managed node groups

Open Collections 6

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).

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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

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 Eks Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 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.

Features 7

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.

Managed Control Plane

AWS manages the Kubernetes control plane across multiple Availability Zones with automatic upgrades.

EKS Auto Mode

Automates cluster infrastructure management for compute, storage, and networking with machine learning optimization.

EKS Hybrid Nodes

Connect on-premises and edge infrastructure to EKS clusters for unified management.

Fargate Integration

Run Kubernetes pods on serverless compute without managing EC2 node groups.

Managed Node Groups

Automate provisioning and lifecycle management of EC2 nodes for Kubernetes clusters.

EKS Anywhere

Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters on customer-managed infrastructure including on-premises.

Add-Ons Management

Manage operational software add-ons like VPC CNI, CoreDNS, and kube-proxy through EKS.

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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 Eks Context

30 classes · 61 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 EKS API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Amazon EKS API Rules

39 rules · 11 errors · 23 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 30

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 EKS Cluster

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Addon

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cluster

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateAddonRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateAddonResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateClusterRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateClusterResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateFargateProfileRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateFargateProfileResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateNodegroupRequest

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateNodegroupResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteAddonResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteClusterResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteFargateProfileResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteNodegroupResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeAddonResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeClusterResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeFargateProfileResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeNodegroupResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FargateProfile

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FargateProfileSelector

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

KubernetesNetworkConfigResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListAddonsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListClustersResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListFargateProfilesResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListNodegroupsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Logging

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NodegroupScalingConfig

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Nodegroup

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VpcConfigResponse

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 30

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 Eks Cluster Structure

13 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eks Openapi Addon Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eks Openapi Cluster Structure

13 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eks Openapi Create Addon Request Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eks Openapi Fargate Profile Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eks Openapi List Addons Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eks Openapi Logging Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eks Openapi Nodegroup Structure

16 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eks Openapi Vpc Config Response Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 30

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.

Eks Openapi Addon Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

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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 Eks Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Eks Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Amazon Eks 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 Eks Agentic Access

16 operations · 8 acting

16 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

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.

Generative AI Applications

Scale production-grade AI deployments with GPU nodes for distributed training and inference.

Microservices Architecture

Deploy and manage containerized microservices with Kubernetes-native service discovery and scaling.

Internal Developer Platforms

Standardized Kubernetes environments combining open source with AWS managed services.

Hybrid Cloud Applications

Unified Kubernetes management across AWS cloud and on-premises infrastructure.

Data Processing Platforms

Scalable batch processing and streaming data workloads using Spark, Flink, or Ray.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Amazon EKS — 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.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

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 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/amazon-eks · machine-readable index on apis.io

Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Amazon EKS, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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