Amazon Private CA
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) is a highly available, fully managed private CA service that helps you easily and securely manage the lifecycle of your private certificates. It allows you to create private CA hierarchies and issue X.509 certificates for your internal resources including TLS certificates for microservices, IoT devices, and user authentication.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Amazon Private CA the way a machine reads it — 258 machine-readable artifacts across 23 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 Private CA scores 65.5/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 55/100 (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 Private CA
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon Private CA. 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 23
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 Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.CreateCertificateAuthority API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.CreateCertificateAuthority API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.createcertificateauthority.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.CreateCertificateAuthorityAuditReport API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.CreateCertificateAuthorityAuditReport API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.createcertificateauthorityauditre...
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.CreatePermission API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.CreatePermission API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.createpermission.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.DeleteCertificateAuthority API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.DeleteCertificateAuthority API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.deletecertificateauthority.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.DeletePermission API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.DeletePermission API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.deletepermission.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.DeletePolicy API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.DeletePolicy API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.deletepolicy.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.DescribeCertificateAuthority API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.DescribeCertificateAuthority API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.describecertificateauthority.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.DescribeCertificateAuthorityAuditReport API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.DescribeCertificateAuthorityAuditReport API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.describecertificateauthorityaud...
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.GetCertificate API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.GetCertificate API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.getcertificate.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.GetCertificateAuthorityCertificate API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.GetCertificateAuthorityCertificate API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.getcertificateauthoritycertificate.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.GetCertificateAuthorityCsr API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.GetCertificateAuthorityCsr API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.getcertificateauthoritycsr.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.GetPolicy API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.GetPolicy API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.getpolicy.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.ImportCertificateAuthorityCertificate API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.ImportCertificateAuthorityCertificate API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.importcertificateauthoritycertifi...
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.IssueCertificate API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.IssueCertificate API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.issuecertificate.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.ListCertificateAuthorities API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.ListCertificateAuthorities API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.listcertificateauthorities.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.ListPermissions API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.ListPermissions API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.listpermissions.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.ListTags API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.ListTags API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.listtags.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.PutPolicy API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.PutPolicy API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.putpolicy.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.RestoreCertificateAuthority API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.RestoreCertificateAuthority API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.restorecertificateauthority.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.RevokeCertificate API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.RevokeCertificate API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.revokecertificate.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.TagCertificateAuthority API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.TagCertificateAuthority API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.tagcertificateauthority.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.UntagCertificateAuthority API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.UntagCertificateAuthority API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.untagcertificateauthority.
Amazon Private CA #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.UpdateCertificateAuthority API
The #X Amz Target=ACMPrivateCA.UpdateCertificateAuthority API from Amazon Private CA — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=acmprivateca.updatecertificateauthority.
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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 Private Ca 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 Private Ca Finops
FINOPSFeatures 8
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.
Private CA Hierarchy
Create root and subordinate CA hierarchies for complete control over your PKI infrastructure.
X.509 Certificate Issuance
Issue end-entity and CA certificates signed by your private CAs for internal resources.
Certificate Revocation
Revoke compromised or expired certificates with CRL and OCSP support.
Audit Reports
Generate detailed audit reports of all certificate issuance activity stored in S3.
Short-Lived Certificates
Issue short-lived certificates to reduce revocation overhead and improve security posture.
Custom Templates
Use certificate templates to standardize certificate extensions and constraints.
IAM Integration
Control access to CA operations using fine-grained IAM policies and resource-based policies.
High Availability
Fully managed, highly available service with automatic failover across AWS Availability Zones.
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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 Private Ca Context
JSON-LDSpectral 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 Private CA API Rules
SPECTRALAmazon Private CA 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.
AccessDescription
JSON SCHEMAAccessMethod
JSON SCHEMAAccessMethodType
JSON SCHEMAActionType
JSON SCHEMAApiPassthrough
JSON SCHEMAASN1Subject
JSON SCHEMAAuditReportResponseFormat
JSON SCHEMAAuditReportStatus
JSON SCHEMACertificateAuthorityConfiguration
JSON SCHEMACertificateAuthority
JSON SCHEMACertificateAuthorityStatus
JSON SCHEMACertificateAuthorityType
JSON SCHEMACertificateAuthorityUsageMode
JSON SCHEMACreateCertificateAuthorityAuditReportRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateCertificateAuthorityRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateCertificateAuthorityResponse
JSON SCHEMACreatePermissionRequest
JSON SCHEMACrlConfiguration
JSON SCHEMACsrExtensions
JSON SCHEMACustomAttribute
JSON SCHEMACustomExtension
JSON SCHEMADeleteCertificateAuthorityRequest
JSON SCHEMADeletePermissionRequest
JSON SCHEMADeletePolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeCertificateAuthorityRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeCertificateAuthorityResponse
JSON SCHEMAEdiPartyName
JSON SCHEMAExtendedKeyUsage
JSON SCHEMAExtendedKeyUsageType
JSON SCHEMAExtensions
JSON SCHEMAFailureReason
JSON SCHEMAGeneralName
JSON SCHEMAGetCertificateAuthorityCertificateRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetCertificateAuthorityCertificateResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetCertificateAuthorityCsrRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetCertificateAuthorityCsrResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetCertificateRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetCertificateResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetPolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetPolicyResponse
JSON SCHEMAImportCertificateAuthorityCertificateRequest
JSON SCHEMAIssueCertificateRequest
JSON SCHEMAIssueCertificateResponse
JSON SCHEMAKeyAlgorithm
JSON SCHEMAKeyStorageSecurityStandard
JSON SCHEMAKeyUsage
JSON SCHEMAListCertificateAuthoritiesRequest
JSON SCHEMAListCertificateAuthoritiesResponse
JSON SCHEMAListPermissionsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListPermissionsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListTagsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListTagsResponse
JSON SCHEMAOcspConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAOtherName
JSON SCHEMAPermission
JSON SCHEMAPolicyInformation
JSON SCHEMAPolicyQualifierId
JSON SCHEMAPolicyQualifierInfo
JSON SCHEMAPutPolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMAQualifier
JSON SCHEMAResourceOwner
JSON SCHEMARestoreCertificateAuthorityRequest
JSON SCHEMARevocationConfiguration
JSON SCHEMARevocationReason
JSON SCHEMARevokeCertificateRequest
JSON SCHEMAS3ObjectAcl
JSON SCHEMASigningAlgorithm
JSON SCHEMATagCertificateAuthorityRequest
JSON SCHEMATag
JSON SCHEMAUntagCertificateAuthorityRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateCertificateAuthorityRequest
JSON SCHEMAValidityPeriodType
JSON SCHEMAValidity
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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.
Amazon Private Ca Access Description Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Access Method Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Access Method Type Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Action Type Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Api Passthrough Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Asn1Subject Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Audit Report Response Format Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Audit Report Status Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Certificate Authority Status Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Certificate Authority Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Certificate Authority Type Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Create Permission Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Crl Configuration Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Csr Extensions Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Custom Attribute Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Custom Extension Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Delete Permission Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Delete Policy Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Edi Party Name Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Extended Key Usage Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Extended Key Usage Type Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Extensions Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Failure Reason Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca General Name Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Get Certificate Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Get Certificate Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Get Policy Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Get Policy Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Issue Certificate Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Issue Certificate Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Key Algorithm Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Key Usage Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca List Permissions Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca List Permissions Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca List Tags Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca List Tags Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Ocsp Configuration Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Other Name Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Permission Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Policy Information Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Policy Qualifier Id Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Policy Qualifier Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Put Policy Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Qualifier Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Resource Owner Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Revocation Configuration Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Revocation Reason Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Revoke Certificate Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca S3Object Acl Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Signing Algorithm Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Tag Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Validity Period Type Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Private Ca Validity Structure
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Examples 59
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.
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 5
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.
TLS for Internal Services
Issue TLS certificates for microservices, APIs, and internal web applications.
IoT Device Authentication
Provision unique X.509 certificates to IoT devices for mutual TLS authentication.
User and Workload Identity
Issue certificates for user authentication and workload identity in zero-trust architectures.
Code Signing
Sign software artifacts and container images with private CA-issued certificates.
VPN and Network Security
Issue certificates for VPN clients and network devices for mutual authentication.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Amazon Private CA — 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 77
Reference material describing how the API behaves
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Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 79
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 60
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
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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