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Amazon Parallel Computing Service

AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) is a managed service that makes it easy to create and manage high performance computing (HPC) clusters on AWS. It provides familiar scheduler interfaces, integrates with existing HPC tools, and scales automatically to handle demanding workloads.

agent aware

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Amazon Parallel Computing Service the way a machine reads it — 28 machine-readable artifacts across 19 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 Parallel Computing Service scores 55.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). 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 — 55.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 10.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.3 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 7.3 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 Parallel Computing Service

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon Parallel Computing Service. 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 19

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 Parallel Computing Service CreateCluster API

The CreateCluster API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for createcluster.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service CreateComputeNodeGroup API

The CreateComputeNodeGroup API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for createcomputenodegroup.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service CreateQueue API

The CreateQueue API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for createqueue.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service DeleteCluster API

The DeleteCluster API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for deletecluster.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service DeleteComputeNodeGroup API

The DeleteComputeNodeGroup API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for deletecomputenodegroup.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service DeleteQueue API

The DeleteQueue API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for deletequeue.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service GetCluster API

The GetCluster API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for getcluster.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service GetComputeNodeGroup API

The GetComputeNodeGroup API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for getcomputenodegroup.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service GetQueue API

The GetQueue API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for getqueue.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service ListClusters API

The ListClusters API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for listclusters.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service ListComputeNodeGroups API

The ListComputeNodeGroups API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for listcomputenodegroups.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service ListQueues API

The ListQueues API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for listqueues.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service ListTagsForResource API

The ListTagsForResource API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for listtagsforresource.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service RegisterComputeNodeGroupInstance API

The RegisterComputeNodeGroupInstance API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for registercomputenodegroupinstance.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service TagResource API

The TagResource API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for tagresource.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service UntagResource API

The UntagResource API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for untagresource.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service UpdateCluster API

The UpdateCluster API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for updatecluster.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service UpdateComputeNodeGroup API

The UpdateComputeNodeGroup API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for updatecomputenodegroup.

Amazon Parallel Computing Service UpdateQueue API

The UpdateQueue API from Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 1 operation(s) for updatequeue.

Scroll within the panel for all 19 ·

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).

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.

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.

Spectral Rules 1

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 Parallel Computing Service API Rules

23 rules · 10 errors · 12 warnings

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 3

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 Parallel Computing Service Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Parallel Computing Service Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Amazon Parallel Computing Service 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 Parallel Computing Service Agentic Access

19 operations · 19 acting

19 operations · 19 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Amazon Parallel Computing Service — 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 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

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 2

The organization behind the API

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