AWS Backup
AWS Backup is a fully managed, policy-based data protection service that centralizes and automates backup of data across AWS services including EBS volumes, EC2 instances, RDS databases, DynamoDB tables, EFS file systems, FSx file systems, Storage Gateway volumes, S3, and on-premises data via the AWS Backup gateway. The AWS Backup API allows programmatic management of backup plans, vaults, recovery points, restore jobs, and cross-account, cross-Region copies, authenticated with AWS Signature Version 4 (SigV4).
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles AWS Backup the way a machine reads it — 17 machine-readable artifacts across 11 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 Backup scores 30.4/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 41/100 (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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile AWS Backup
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for AWS Backup. 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 11
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 Backup API
REST API for centrally configuring and managing AWS Backup including backup plans, backup selections, backup vaults, recovery points, restore jobs, framework reports, audit repo...
AWS Backup Backup Jobs API
The Backup Jobs API from AWS Backup — 2 operation(s) for backup jobs.
AWS Backup Backup Plans API
The Backup Plans API from AWS Backup — 2 operation(s) for backup plans.
AWS Backup Backup Selections API
The Backup Selections API from AWS Backup — 1 operation(s) for backup selections.
AWS Backup Backup Vaults API
The Backup Vaults API from AWS Backup — 2 operation(s) for backup vaults.
AWS Backup Copy Jobs API
The Copy Jobs API from AWS Backup — 1 operation(s) for copy jobs.
AWS Backup Frameworks API
The Frameworks API from AWS Backup — 1 operation(s) for frameworks.
AWS Backup Recovery Points API
The Recovery Points API from AWS Backup — 2 operation(s) for recovery points.
AWS Backup Report Plans API
The Report Plans API from AWS Backup — 1 operation(s) for report plans.
AWS Backup Restore Jobs API
The Restore Jobs API from AWS Backup — 1 operation(s) for restore jobs.
AWS Backup Tags API
The Tags API from AWS Backup — 1 operation(s) for tags.
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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 Backup API
OPEN COLLECTIONSecurity 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 AWS Backup — 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
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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