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Amazon Keyspaces

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that lets you run Cassandra workloads on AWS without managing servers or software.

agent ready

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 Keyspaces the way a machine reads it — 37 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 Keyspaces scores 76.2/100 (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 — 76.2/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 18.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 17.4 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 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 Keyspaces

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

Cassandra keyspace management

Amazon Keyspaces Tables API

Cassandra table management

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 Keyspaces API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo 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 Keyspaces Clone Table Schema

Read a source table's schema and create a new table from it in a target keyspace.

ARAZZO

Amazon Keyspaces Decommission Keyspace

Delete a table, wait for it to drain, then delete its keyspace.

ARAZZO

Amazon Keyspaces Keyspace Inventory

Confirm a keyspace, add a table, then list its tables to verify the table appears.

ARAZZO

Amazon Keyspaces Provision Table

Create a keyspace, add a table to it, and wait until the table is ACTIVE.

ARAZZO

Amazon Keyspaces Restore Table

Restore a table to a point in time and wait for the restored copy to be ACTIVE.

ARAZZO

Amazon Keyspaces Update Table Schema

Add columns to an existing table and wait for it to return to ACTIVE.

ARAZZO

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 Keyspaces Rate Limits

5 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 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.

Cassandra Compatibility

Fully compatible with Apache Cassandra drivers, tools, and applications with no code changes required.

Serverless Scaling

Automatically scales table throughput and storage up and down based on application traffic.

Point-in-Time Recovery

Continuous backup with PITR enables restoration of tables to any second within the last 35 days.

Encryption at Rest

Data is encrypted at rest by default using AWS managed keys or customer-managed keys via AWS KMS.

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Support

Access Amazon Keyspaces from within VPCs using VPC endpoints for enhanced network security.

Capacity Modes

Choose on-demand or provisioned capacity mode with auto scaling for predictable workloads.

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 Keyspaces Context

2 classes · 7 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 Keyspaces API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Amazon Keyspaces API Rules

24 rules · 9 errors · 14 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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.

Keyspace

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Table

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

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 Keyspaces Keyspace Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Keyspaces Table Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

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 Keyspaces Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Amazon Keyspaces Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Keyspaces Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Amazon Keyspaces 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 Keyspaces Agentic Access

10 operations · 6 acting

10 operations · 6 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.

IoT Data Storage

Store high-volume sensor data and telemetry from IoT devices with wide-column schema.

User Activity Tracking

Track user events, clickstreams, and behavioral data at massive scale.

Time-Series Data

Manage time-series data for monitoring, metrics, and log aggregation.

Migrate Cassandra Workloads

Lift and shift existing Cassandra applications to a fully managed cloud service.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Amazon Keyspaces — 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 4

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 ·

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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