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.
Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.
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.
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 Data Streams API
OPEN COLLECTIONAmazon Kinesis API
OPEN COLLECTIONArazzo 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.
ARAZZOAmazon Kinesis Create Stream and Put First Record
Create a stream, wait until it is ACTIVE, then write the first data record.
ARAZZOAmazon Kinesis Deregister Consumer and Delete Stream
Deregister an enhanced fan-out consumer, confirm the stream, then delete it.
ARAZZOAmazon Kinesis List Shards and Read From First
List a stream's shards, then read from the first shard from the trim horizon.
ARAZZOAmazon Kinesis Put Record and Read At Sequence
Write one record, then read it back starting at its exact sequence number.
ARAZZOAmazon Kinesis Put Records and Read Back
Batch-write records, get a shard iterator, then read the records back.
ARAZZOAmazon Kinesis Register Consumer and Confirm
Register an enhanced fan-out consumer and poll until it becomes ACTIVE.
ARAZZOAmazon Kinesis Scale Stream Shard Count
Resize a provisioned stream's shard count, wait for ACTIVE, then list shards.
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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
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 Kinesis Finops
FINOPSEvent 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...
ASYNCAPISemantic 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
JSON-LDSpectral 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
SPECTRALAmazon Kinesis API Rules
SPECTRALAmazon Kinesis API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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.
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
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Kinesis Stream Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 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.
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 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
Design & Contract 10
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 2
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
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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