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Amazon Shield

AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. It provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency, with two tiers of protection - Shield Standard for automatic defense against common attacks and Shield Advanced for enhanced detection and 24/7 access to the DDoS Response Team.

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 Shield the way a machine reads it — 65 machine-readable artifacts across 7 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 Shield scores 65.4/100 (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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 65.4/100 · strong
Contract Quality 16.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.3 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 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 Shield

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon Shield. 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 7

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 Shield Amazon Shield REST API API

The Amazon Shield REST API API from Amazon Shield — 1 operation(s) for amazon shield rest api.

Amazon Shield #CreateProtectionGroup API

The #CreateProtectionGroup API from Amazon Shield — 1 operation(s) for #createprotectiongroup.

Amazon Shield #CreateSubscription API

The #CreateSubscription API from Amazon Shield — 1 operation(s) for #createsubscription.

Amazon Shield #DescribeAttack API

The #DescribeAttack API from Amazon Shield — 1 operation(s) for #describeattack.

Amazon Shield #DescribeProtection API

The #DescribeProtection API from Amazon Shield — 1 operation(s) for #describeprotection.

Amazon Shield #DescribeSubscription API

The #DescribeSubscription API from Amazon Shield — 1 operation(s) for #describesubscription.

Amazon Shield #ListProtections API

The #ListProtections API from Amazon Shield — 1 operation(s) for #listprotections.

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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 Shield REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

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 Shield 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 Shield Context

14 classes · 31 properties

JSON-LD

Amazon Shield 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 Shield API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Amazon Shield API Rules

24 rules · 8 errors · 15 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 15

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.

AttackDetail

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateProtectionGroupRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateProtectionRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateProtectionResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeAttackRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeAttackResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeProtectionRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeProtectionResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListProtectionsRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListProtectionsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Mitigation

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Protection

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SummarizedCounter

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tag

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Amazon Shield Protection

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 15

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 15

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 Shield Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Amazon Shield Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Shield Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Amazon Shield 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 Shield Agentic Access

7 operations · 7 acting

7 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Amazon Shield — 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

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

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