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Amazon MediaStore

AWS Elemental MediaStore is an AWS storage service optimized for media, providing the performance, consistency, and low latency required to deliver live streaming video content at scale.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Amazon MediaStore the way a machine reads it — 287 machine-readable artifacts across 21 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 MediaStore scores 64.6/100 (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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 64.6/100 · strong
Contract Quality 17.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 8.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 13.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 7.5 / 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 MediaStore

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon MediaStore. 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 21

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 MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.CreateContainer API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.CreateContainer API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.createcontainer.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.DeleteContainer API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.DeleteContainer API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.deletecontainer.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.DeleteContainerPolicy API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.DeleteContainerPolicy API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.deletecontainerpolicy.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.DeleteCorsPolicy API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.DeleteCorsPolicy API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.deletecorspolicy.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.DeleteLifecyclePolicy API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.DeleteLifecyclePolicy API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.deletelifecyclepolicy.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.DeleteMetricPolicy API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.DeleteMetricPolicy API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.deletemetricpolicy.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.DescribeContainer API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.DescribeContainer API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.describecontainer.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.GetContainerPolicy API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.GetContainerPolicy API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.getcontainerpolicy.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.GetCorsPolicy API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.GetCorsPolicy API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.getcorspolicy.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.GetLifecyclePolicy API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.GetLifecyclePolicy API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.getlifecyclepolicy.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.GetMetricPolicy API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.GetMetricPolicy API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.getmetricpolicy.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.ListContainers API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.ListContainers API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.listcontainers.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.ListTagsForResource API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.ListTagsForResource API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.listtagsforresource.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.PutContainerPolicy API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.PutContainerPolicy API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.putcontainerpolicy.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.PutCorsPolicy API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.PutCorsPolicy API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.putcorspolicy.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.PutLifecyclePolicy API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.PutLifecyclePolicy API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.putlifecyclepolicy.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.PutMetricPolicy API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.PutMetricPolicy API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.putmetricpolicy.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.StartAccessLogging API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.StartAccessLogging API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.startaccesslogging.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.StopAccessLogging API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.StopAccessLogging API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.stopaccesslogging.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.TagResource API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.TagResource API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.tagresource.

Amazon MediaStore #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.UntagResource API

The #X Amz Target=MediaStore 20170901.UntagResource API from Amazon MediaStore — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=mediastore 20170901.untagresource.

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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 Mediastore 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 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.

High-Performance Media Storage

Optimized object storage for live video with consistent low-latency performance.

Container and Object Management

Organize media assets in containers with fine-grained access control policies.

CORS Support

Cross-origin resource sharing configuration for browser-based media players.

Lifecycle Policies

Automatically expire and delete media objects based on age or other criteria.

Access Logging

Detailed access logs for auditing and monitoring media storage activity.

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 Mediastore Mediastore Api Context

83 classes · 27 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 MediaStore API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Amazon MediaStore API Rules

24 rules · 9 errors · 11 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 81

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.

AllowedHeaders

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AllowedMethods

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AllowedOrigins

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerAccessLoggingEnabled

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerARN

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerInUseException

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerLevelMetrics

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerListLimit

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerList

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerName

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerNotFoundException

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerPolicy

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Container

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerStatus

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CorsPolicyNotFoundException

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CorsPolicy

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CorsRule

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateContainerInput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateContainerOutput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteContainerInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteContainerOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteContainerPolicyInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteContainerPolicyOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteCorsPolicyInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteCorsPolicyOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteLifecyclePolicyInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteLifecyclePolicyOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteMetricPolicyInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteMetricPolicyOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeContainerInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeContainerOutput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Endpoint

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ExposeHeaders

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetContainerPolicyInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetContainerPolicyOutput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetCorsPolicyInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetCorsPolicyOutput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetLifecyclePolicyInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetLifecyclePolicyOutput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetMetricPolicyInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetMetricPolicyOutput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Header

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InternalServerError

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LifecyclePolicy

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LimitExceededException

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListContainersInput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListContainersOutput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListTagsForResourceInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListTagsForResourceOutput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MaxAgeSeconds

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MethodName

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetricPolicyRule

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetricPolicyRules

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetricPolicy

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ObjectGroupName

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ObjectGroup

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Origin

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaginationToken

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PolicyNotFoundException

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PutContainerPolicyInput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PutContainerPolicyOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PutCorsPolicyInput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PutCorsPolicyOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PutLifecyclePolicyInput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PutLifecyclePolicyOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PutMetricPolicyInput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PutMetricPolicyOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StartAccessLoggingInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StartAccessLoggingOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StopAccessLoggingInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StopAccessLoggingOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TagKeyList

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TagKey

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TagList

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TagResourceInput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TagResourceOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tag

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TagValue

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TimeStamp

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UntagResourceInput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UntagResourceOutput

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 81

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.

Mediastore Api Allowed Headers Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Allowed Methods Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Allowed Origins Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Container Arn Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Container List Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Container Name Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Container Policy Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Container Status Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Container Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Cors Policy Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Cors Rule Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Endpoint Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Expose Headers Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Header Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Lifecycle Policy Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Max Age Seconds Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Method Name Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Metric Policy Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Object Group Name Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Object Group Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Origin Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Pagination Token Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Tag Key List Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Tag Key Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Tag List Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Tag Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Tag Value Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastore Api Time Stamp Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 81

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 Mediastore Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Amazon Mediastore Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Mediastore Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Amazon Mediastore 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 Mediastore Agentic Access

21 operations · 21 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

21 operations · 21 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.

Live Video Origin Storage

Use as a high-performance origin for live video workflows.

Media Asset Management

Store and manage media files with low-latency access.

Streaming Video Delivery

Serve HLS and DASH segments with consistent performance for video streaming.

Integrations 4

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

AWS Elemental MediaLive

Use MediaStore as an output destination for live encoded streams.

Amazon CloudFront

Serve MediaStore content via CloudFront for global distribution.

AWS IAM

Control access to MediaStore containers using IAM policies.

Amazon CloudWatch

Monitor MediaStore request metrics and latency.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Amazon MediaStore — 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

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

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