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Amazon RDS

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud, providing cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups.

agent ready

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Amazon RDS the way a machine reads it — 70 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 RDS scores 73.2/100 (exemplar), 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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 73.2/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 18.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 17.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.2 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 55/100 · 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 7 / 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 RDS

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon RDS. 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 RDS DB Clusters API

Operations for creating and managing Aurora database clusters

Amazon RDS DB Engine Versions API

Operations for describing available database engine versions

Amazon RDS DB Instances API

Operations for creating, managing, and deleting RDS database instances

Amazon RDS DB Snapshots API

Operations for creating and managing database snapshots

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 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).

Amazon RDS API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 16

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 RDS Add an Aurora Replica Instance

Confirm a cluster is available, add a reader instance, and poll until it joins.

ARAZZO

Amazon RDS Clean Up a DB Snapshot

Confirm a manual snapshot is available, delete it, then verify removal.

ARAZZO

Amazon RDS Snapshot and Rebuild a DB Instance

Snapshot a source instance, wait for it, then build a fresh matching instance.

ARAZZO

Amazon RDS Convert Instance to Multi-AZ

Enable Multi-AZ on a DB instance immediately and poll until stable.

ARAZZO

Amazon RDS Delete an Aurora DB Cluster

Snapshot member instances, delete them, then delete the Aurora cluster.

ARAZZO

Amazon RDS Enable Backup Retention

Set an instance backup retention period immediately and poll until stable.

ARAZZO

Amazon RDS Modify a DB Instance Class

Resize a DB instance class immediately and poll until it stabilizes.

ARAZZO

Amazon RDS Provision an Aurora DB Cluster

Create an Aurora DB cluster and poll until it reports the available status.

ARAZZO

Amazon RDS Provision a DB Instance

Create a DB instance and poll until it reports the available status.

ARAZZO

Amazon RDS Reboot a DB Instance

Reboot a DB instance with optional failover and poll until it recovers.

ARAZZO

Amazon RDS Rotate Master Password

Reset the master user password immediately and poll until the instance stabilizes.

ARAZZO

Amazon RDS Scale DB Instance Storage

Increase allocated storage immediately and poll until the instance stabilizes.

ARAZZO

Amazon RDS Snapshot a DB Instance

Create a manual DB snapshot and poll until it reports the available status.

ARAZZO

Amazon RDS Snapshot Then Delete a DB Instance

Take a final manual snapshot, wait for it, then safely delete the instance.

ARAZZO

Amazon RDS Upgrade DB Engine Version

Resolve a target engine version, upgrade the instance, and poll until stable.

ARAZZO

Amazon RDS Verify Engine Support Then Provision

Validate the engine version is offered, then provision an instance and wait.

ARAZZO

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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 Rds 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.

Semantic Vocabularies 2

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 Rds Context

12 classes · 48 properties

JSON-LD

Amazon Rds Context

0 classes · 3 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 RDS API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Amazon RDS API Rules

27 rules · 8 errors · 17 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 12

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.

Amazon RDS DB Instance

26 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateDBClusterResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateDBInstanceResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateDBSnapshotResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DBCluster

18 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DBInstance

22 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DBSnapshot

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeDBClustersResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeDBInstancesResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeDBSnapshotsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ModifyDBInstanceResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tag

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 12

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.

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Examples 12

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 Rds Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Amazon Rds Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Rds Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Amazon Rds 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 Rds Agentic Access

12 operations

12 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Amazon RDS — 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 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/amazon-rds · machine-readable index on apis.io