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Amazon Kinesis

Amazon Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time streaming data so you can get timely insights and react quickly to new information. Amazon Kinesis offers key capabilities to cost-effectively process streaming data at any scale, along with the flexibility to choose the tools that best suit the requirements of your application.

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 Kinesis the way a machine reads it — 44 machine-readable artifacts across 11 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 Kinesis scores 70.8/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (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 — 70.8/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 20.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 9.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 54/100 · 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 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Amazon Kinesis

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon Kinesis. 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 11

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 Kinesis Account API

Operations for describing and updating account-level settings and limits.

Amazon Kinesis Consumers API

Operations for registering, describing, listing, and deregistering enhanced fan-out consumers.

Amazon Kinesis Encryption API

Operations for starting and stopping server-side encryption on a stream.

Amazon Kinesis Monitoring API

Operations for enabling and disabling enhanced shard-level monitoring.

Amazon Kinesis Policies API

Operations for managing resource-based policies on streams.

Amazon Kinesis Records API

Operations for putting and getting data records to and from a stream.

Amazon Kinesis Shards API

Operations for listing, splitting, merging, and managing shards within a stream.

Amazon Kinesis Streams API

Operations for creating, describing, listing, and managing Kinesis data streams.

Amazon Kinesis #X Amz Target=Kinesis 20131202.AddTagsToStream API

The #X Amz Target=Kinesis 20131202.AddTagsToStream API from Amazon Kinesis — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=kinesis 20131202.addtagstostream.

Amazon Kinesis #X Amz Target=Kinesis 20131202.ListTagsForStream API

The #X Amz Target=Kinesis 20131202.ListTagsForStream API from Amazon Kinesis — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=kinesis 20131202.listtagsforstream.

Amazon Kinesis #X Amz Target=Kinesis 20131202.RemoveTagsFromStream API

The #X Amz Target=Kinesis 20131202.RemoveTagsFromStream API from Amazon Kinesis — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=kinesis 20131202.removetagsfromstream.

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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.

Open Collections 2

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 Kinesis API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 8

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 Kinesis Create and Activate Stream

Create a Kinesis data stream and poll until it reaches ACTIVE status.

ARAZZO

Amazon Kinesis Create Stream and Put First Record

Create a stream, wait until it is ACTIVE, then write the first data record.

ARAZZO

Amazon Kinesis Deregister Consumer and Delete Stream

Deregister an enhanced fan-out consumer, confirm the stream, then delete it.

ARAZZO

Amazon Kinesis List Shards and Read From First

List a stream's shards, then read from the first shard from the trim horizon.

ARAZZO

Amazon Kinesis Put Record and Read At Sequence

Write one record, then read it back starting at its exact sequence number.

ARAZZO

Amazon Kinesis Put Records and Read Back

Batch-write records, get a shard iterator, then read the records back.

ARAZZO

Amazon Kinesis Register Consumer and Confirm

Register an enhanced fan-out consumer and poll until it becomes ACTIVE.

ARAZZO

Amazon Kinesis Scale Stream Shard Count

Resize a provisioned stream's shard count, wait for ACTIVE, then list shards.

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.

Amazon Kinesis 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.

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a massively scalable and durable real-time data streaming service. This AsyncAPI specification describes the event-driven consumer patterns for Ki...

ASYNCAPI

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 Kinesis Context

2 classes · 7 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

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 Kinesis API Rules

10 rules · 1 errors · 8 warnings

SPECTRAL

Amazon Kinesis API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Amazon Kinesis API Rules

24 rules · 9 errors · 15 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.

Record

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Stream

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 Kinesis Record Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Kinesis Stream 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 Kinesis Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Amazon Kinesis Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Kinesis Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Amazon Kinesis 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 Kinesis Agentic Access

39 operations · 36 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

39 operations · 36 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 3

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.

Real-Time Analytics

Analyze streaming data for operational metrics and business intelligence.

Event-Driven Architectures

Build event-driven microservices that react to real-time data streams.

Machine Learning

Feed real-time data into ML models for online training and inference.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Amazon Kinesis — 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 3

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

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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