AWS App Runner
AWS App Runner is a fully managed service that makes it easy to build, deploy, and run containerized web applications and APIs at scale. It automatically builds and deploys applications from container images or source code, load balances traffic with encryption, and scales to meet traffic needs without requiring infrastructure management. App Runner integrates with ECR, GitHub, Bitbucket, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch for complete application delivery.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles AWS App Runner the way a machine reads it — 89 machine-readable artifacts across 13 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 — AWS App Runner scores 67.0/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (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 AWS App Runner
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for AWS App Runner. 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 13
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.
AWS App Runner Auto Scaling API
Manage auto scaling configurations
AWS App Runner AWS App Runner API API
The AWS App Runner API API from AWS App Runner — 1 operation(s) for aws app runner api.
AWS App Runner Connections API
Manage source code provider connections
AWS App Runner Custom Domains API
Manage custom domain associations
AWS App Runner #DeleteService API
The #DeleteService API from AWS App Runner — 1 operation(s) for #deleteservice.
AWS App Runner Deployments API
Manage deployments and operations
AWS App Runner #DescribeService API
The #DescribeService API from AWS App Runner — 1 operation(s) for #describeservice.
AWS App Runner #ListServices API
The #ListServices API from AWS App Runner — 1 operation(s) for #listservices.
AWS App Runner Observability API
Manage observability configurations
AWS App Runner #PauseService API
The #PauseService API from AWS App Runner — 1 operation(s) for #pauseservice.
AWS App Runner #ResumeService API
The #ResumeService API from AWS App Runner — 1 operation(s) for #resumeservice.
AWS App Runner #UpdateService API
The #UpdateService API from AWS App Runner — 1 operation(s) for #updateservice.
AWS App Runner VPC API
Manage VPC connectors
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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).
AWS App Runner API
OPEN COLLECTIONGraphQL 1
Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.
GraphQL schemas published by this provider.
AWS App Runner GraphQL API
GRAPHQLPricing 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.
Aws App Runner 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.
Aws App Runner 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.
Automatic Build and Deploy
Automatically builds container images from source code and deploys with zero configuration.
Auto-Scaling
Scales automatically based on incoming request volume, with configurable min/max instances.
Load Balancing
Built-in load balancing with HTTPS encryption for all traffic to deployed services.
Custom Domains
Associate custom domain names with SSL/TLS certificates for branded endpoints.
VPC Integration
Connect to private VPC resources like RDS, ElastiCache, and internal services.
Pause and Resume
Pause services to stop billing during idle periods and resume instantly when needed.
Observability
Integration with CloudWatch and X-Ray for metrics, logs, and distributed tracing.
GitHub and ECR Integration
Deploy directly from GitHub repositories or Amazon ECR container registries.
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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.
Aws App Runner 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.
AWS App Runner API Rules
SPECTRALAWS App Runner API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 17
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.
AutoScalingConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAAutoScalingConfigurationSummary
JSON SCHEMAConnection
JSON SCHEMAConnectionSummary
JSON SCHEMACreateServiceRequest
JSON SCHEMACustomDomain
JSON SCHEMAHealthCheckConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAInstanceConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAObservabilityConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAOperationSummary
JSON SCHEMAService
JSON SCHEMAServiceSummary
JSON SCHEMASourceConfiguration
JSON SCHEMATag
JSON SCHEMAUpdateServiceRequest
JSON SCHEMAVpcConnector
JSON SCHEMAVpcDNSTarget
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 17 ·
JSON Structure 17
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.
App Runner Auto Scaling Configuration Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApp Runner Auto Scaling Configuration Summary Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApp Runner Connection Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApp Runner Connection Summary Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApp Runner Create Service Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApp Runner Custom Domain Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApp Runner Health Check Configuration Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApp Runner Instance Configuration Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApp Runner Observability Configuration Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApp Runner Operation Summary Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApp Runner Service Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApp Runner Service Summary Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApp Runner Source Configuration Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApp Runner Tag Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApp Runner Update Service Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApp Runner Vpc Connector Structure
JSON STRUCTUREApp Runner Vpc Dns Target Structure
JSON STRUCTUREScroll within the panel for all 17 ·
Examples 17
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.
App Runner Service Example
EXAMPLEApp Runner Tag Example
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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 4
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.
Web Application Deployment
Deploy containerized web applications without managing servers, load balancers, or scaling.
API Backend Deployment
Host REST or GraphQL API backends with automatic scaling and HTTPS termination.
Microservices Hosting
Deploy individual microservices with isolated scaling and custom domain routing.
Development and Staging Environments
Quickly spin up and tear down environments using pause/resume to minimize costs.
Resources
Every other property we hold for AWS App Runner — 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 1
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 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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