Amazon MediaPackage
AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a video origination and just-in-time packaging service that reliably prepares and protects video for delivery over the internet, creating multiple output formats from a single video input.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Amazon MediaPackage the way a machine reads it — 252 machine-readable artifacts across 4 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 MediaPackage scores 63.9/100 (strong), 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Amazon MediaPackage
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon MediaPackage. 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 MediaPackage Channels API
The Channels API from Amazon MediaPackage — 5 operation(s) for channels.
Amazon MediaPackage Harvest Jobs API
The Harvest Jobs API from Amazon MediaPackage — 2 operation(s) for harvest jobs.
Amazon MediaPackage Origin Endpoints API
The Origin Endpoints API from Amazon MediaPackage — 2 operation(s) for origin endpoints.
Amazon MediaPackage Tags API
The Tags API from Amazon MediaPackage — 2 operation(s) for tags.
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 Mediapackage 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.
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.
Just-in-Time Packaging
Package live video into HLS, DASH, CMAF, and Microsoft Smooth Streaming formats on demand.
Content Protection
Integrated DRM support with PlayReady, Widevine, FairPlay, and SPEKE standard.
Time-Shifted Viewing
Enable start-over, catch-up TV, and pause live TV with configurable time windows.
CDN Integration
Direct integration with CloudFront for scalable content delivery.
Harvest Jobs
Clip and archive live stream segments to S3 for VOD asset creation.
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.
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 MediaPackage API Rules
SPECTRALAmazon MediaPackage API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 76
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.
AdMarkers
JSON SCHEMAAdTriggers
JSON SCHEMAAdsOnDeliveryRestrictions
JSON SCHEMAAuthorization
JSON SCHEMAChannel
JSON SCHEMACmafEncryptionMethod
JSON SCHEMACmafEncryption
JSON SCHEMACmafPackageCreateOrUpdateParameters
JSON SCHEMACmafPackage
JSON SCHEMAConfigureLogsRequest
JSON SCHEMAConfigureLogsResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateChannelRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateChannelResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateHarvestJobRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateHarvestJobResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateOriginEndpointRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateOriginEndpointResponse
JSON SCHEMADashEncryption
JSON SCHEMADashPackage
JSON SCHEMADeleteChannelRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteChannelResponse
JSON SCHEMADeleteOriginEndpointRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteOriginEndpointResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeChannelRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeChannelResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeHarvestJobRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeHarvestJobResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeOriginEndpointRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeOriginEndpointResponse
JSON SCHEMAEgressAccessLogs
JSON SCHEMAEncryptionContractConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAEncryptionMethod
JSON SCHEMAHarvestJob
JSON SCHEMAHlsEncryption
JSON SCHEMAHlsIngest
JSON SCHEMAHlsManifestCreateOrUpdateParameters
JSON SCHEMAHlsManifest
JSON SCHEMAHlsPackage
JSON SCHEMAIngestEndpoint
JSON SCHEMAIngressAccessLogs
JSON SCHEMAListChannelsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListChannelsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListHarvestJobsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListHarvestJobsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListOriginEndpointsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListOriginEndpointsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListTagsForResourceRequest
JSON SCHEMAListTagsForResourceResponse
JSON SCHEMAManifestLayout
JSON SCHEMAMaxResults
JSON SCHEMAMssEncryption
JSON SCHEMAMssPackage
JSON SCHEMAOriginEndpoint
JSON SCHEMAOrigination
JSON SCHEMAPlaylistType
JSON SCHEMAPresetSpeke20Audio
JSON SCHEMAPresetSpeke20Video
JSON SCHEMAProfile
JSON SCHEMARotateChannelCredentialsRequest
JSON SCHEMARotateChannelCredentialsResponse
JSON SCHEMARotateIngestEndpointCredentialsRequest
JSON SCHEMARotateIngestEndpointCredentialsResponse
JSON SCHEMAS3Destination
JSON SCHEMASegmentTemplateFormat
JSON SCHEMASpekeKeyProvider
JSON SCHEMAStatus
JSON SCHEMAStreamOrder
JSON SCHEMAStreamSelection
JSON SCHEMATagResourceRequest
JSON SCHEMATags
JSON SCHEMAUntagResourceRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateChannelRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateChannelResponse
JSON SCHEMAUpdateOriginEndpointRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateOriginEndpointResponse
JSON SCHEMAUtcTiming
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 76 ·
JSON Structure 76
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.
Mediapackage Api Ad Markers Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Ad Triggers Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Ads On Delivery Restrictions Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Authorization Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Channel Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Cmaf Encryption Method Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Cmaf Encryption Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Cmaf Package Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Configure Logs Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Configure Logs Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Create Channel Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Create Channel Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Create Harvest Job Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Create Harvest Job Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Dash Encryption Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Dash Package Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Delete Channel Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Delete Channel Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Describe Channel Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Describe Channel Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Describe Harvest Job Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Describe Harvest Job Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Egress Access Logs Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Encryption Method Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Harvest Job Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Hls Encryption Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Hls Ingest Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Hls Manifest Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Hls Package Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Ingest Endpoint Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Ingress Access Logs Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api List Channels Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api List Channels Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api List Harvest Jobs Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api List Harvest Jobs Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api List Origin Endpoints Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Manifest Layout Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Max Results Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Mss Encryption Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Mss Package Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Origin Endpoint Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Origination Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Playlist Type Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Preset Speke20 Audio Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Preset Speke20 Video Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Profile Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api S3 Destination Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Segment Template Format Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Speke Key Provider Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Status Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Stream Order Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Stream Selection Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Tag Resource Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Tags Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Untag Resource Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Update Channel Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Update Channel Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediapackage Api Utc Timing Structure
JSON STRUCTUREScroll within the panel for all 76 ·
Examples 76
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.
Scroll within the panel for all 76 ·
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 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.
Live OTT Streaming
Package live video for over-the-top delivery to mobile and connected devices.
Time-Shifted Television
Enable catch-up TV and start-over viewing experiences.
Multi-DRM Content Protection
Protect premium content with multiple DRM systems simultaneously.
Live Clipping
Create VOD clips from live streams for highlights and replays.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Amazon MediaPackage — 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 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/amazon-mediapackage · machine-readable index on apis.io