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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance for your applications.

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Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Amazon Elastic Load Balancing the way a machine reads it — 86 machine-readable artifacts across 5 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 Elastic Load Balancing scores 74.9/100 (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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 74.9/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 19.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 9.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 17.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.2 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 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 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Amazon Elastic Load Balancing

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon Elastic Load Balancing. 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 5

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 Elastic Load Balancing Listeners API

Operations for creating and managing listeners

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Load Balancers API

Operations for creating and managing load balancers

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Rules API

Operations for creating and managing listener rules

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Target Groups API

Operations for creating and managing target groups

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Targets API

Operations for registering and deregistering targets

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).

Arazzo Workflows 11

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 Elastic Load Balancing Add a Host-Based Routing Rule

Create a target group and attach a host-header rule to an existing listener.

ARAZZO

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Add a Listener to an Existing Load Balancer

Look up a load balancer by name and attach a new forwarding listener.

ARAZZO

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Add a Path-Based Maintenance Rule

Attach a path-pattern fixed-response rule to a listener and confirm it.

ARAZZO

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Audit Load Balancer Configuration

Walk a load balancer's listeners and target groups to inventory its routing.

ARAZZO

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Decommission a Load Balancer

Resolve a load balancer by name, inventory its listeners, then delete it.

ARAZZO

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Drain and Deregister a Target

Confirm a target exists, deregister it, then poll until it has drained.

ARAZZO

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Poll Target Health Until Healthy

Register a target then poll its health until it reaches the healthy state.

ARAZZO

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Provision an Application Load Balancer

Stand up an Application Load Balancer with a target group, listener, and registered targets.

ARAZZO

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Provision a Network Load Balancer

Stand up a TCP Network Load Balancer with a target group, listener, and registered targets.

ARAZZO

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Register Targets and Check Health

Create a target group, register a target, then read back its health state.

ARAZZO

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Tune Load Balancer Attributes

Resolve a load balancer by name and apply an attribute change.

ARAZZO

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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.

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 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.

Application Load Balancer

HTTP/HTTPS load balancing with advanced request routing based on content

Network Load Balancer

Ultra-high performance TCP/UDP load balancing at OSI layer 4

Gateway Load Balancer

Distribute traffic to third-party virtual appliances for inspection

Health Checks

Automatically route traffic away from unhealthy targets

SSL/TLS Termination

Offload SSL/TLS decryption from application servers

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 Elastic Load Balancing Context

0 classes · 6 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 Elastic Load Balancing API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing API Rules

26 rules · 10 errors · 14 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 16

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.

Action

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateListenerResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateLoadBalancerResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateRuleResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateTargetGroupResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeListenersResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeLoadBalancersResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeRulesResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeTargetGroupsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeTargetHealthResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Listener

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LoadBalancer

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Rule

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Amazon Elastic Load Balancer

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tag

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TargetGroup

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 16

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.

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Examples 16

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.

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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 Elastic Load Balancing Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing 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 Elastic Load Balancing Agentic Access

13 operations

13 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

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.

Web Application Load Balancing

Distribute HTTP/HTTPS traffic across multiple web servers

Microservices Routing

Route requests to different microservices based on URL paths or headers

Container Load Balancing

Load balance traffic to ECS containers and Kubernetes pods

Multi-Region Traffic Management

Distribute global traffic across multiple AWS regions

Resources

Every other property we hold for Amazon Elastic Load Balancing — 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

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 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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