Amazon Route 53
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service that provides DNS routing, domain name registration, and health checking capabilities. Route 53 connects user requests to internet applications running on AWS or on-premises infrastructure, and can be used to route traffic based on latency, geolocation, geoproximity, and weighted round-robin policies.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Amazon Route 53 the way a machine reads it — 77 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 Route 53 scores 56.9/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 21/100 (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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Amazon Route 53
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon Route 53. 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 3
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 Route 53 Health Checks API
Operations for managing health checks.
Amazon Route 53 Hosted Zones API
Operations for managing DNS hosted zones.
Amazon Route 53 Resource Record Sets API
Operations for managing DNS resource record sets.
Postman Collections 3
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 5
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).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONAmazon Route 53 Health Checks API
OPEN COLLECTIONAmazon Route 53 Health Checks Hosted Zones API
OPEN COLLECTIONAmazon Route 53 Health Checks Resource Record Sets API
OPEN COLLECTIONAmazon Route 53 API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing 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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
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 Route 53 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 Route 53 Finops
FINOPSSemantic 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 Route 53 Context
JSON-LDAmazon Route 53 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 Route 53 API Rules
SPECTRALAmazon Route 53 API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 18
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 Route 53 Hosted Zone
JSON SCHEMAChangeInfo
JSON SCHEMAChangeResourceRecordSetsRequest
JSON SCHEMAChangeResourceRecordSetsResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateHealthCheckRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateHealthCheckResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateHostedZoneRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateHostedZoneResponse
JSON SCHEMADelegationSet
JSON SCHEMADeleteHostedZoneResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetHealthCheckResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetHostedZoneResponse
JSON SCHEMAHealthCheck
JSON SCHEMAHostedZone
JSON SCHEMAListHealthChecksResponse
JSON SCHEMAListHostedZonesResponse
JSON SCHEMAListResourceRecordSetsResponse
JSON SCHEMAResourceRecordSet
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 18 ·
JSON Structure 18
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 Route 53 Hosted Zone Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Route 53 Openapi Change Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Route 53 Openapi Delegation Set Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Route 53 Openapi Health Check Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Route 53 Openapi Hosted Zone Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Route 53 Openapi Resource Record Set Structure
JSON STRUCTUREScroll within the panel for all 18 ·
Examples 18
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Amazon Route 53 — 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
Documentation 20
Reference material describing how the API behaves
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Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 22
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 20
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Scroll within the panel for all 20 ·
Access & Security 6
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 4
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
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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