AWS HealthLake
Amazon HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible, FHIR R4-compliant managed service for importing, transforming, storing, and querying health data from patients and clinical systems. It provides a transactional FHIR server with bulk import/export, medical NLP for unstructured data extraction, SMART on FHIR authorization, and integration with AWS analytics services.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles AWS HealthLake the way a machine reads it — 68 machine-readable artifacts across 8 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 HealthLake scores 61.9/100 (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.
How we profile AWS HealthLake
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for AWS HealthLake. 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 8
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 HealthLake FHIR Import API
Asynchronous bulk import API for loading FHIR R4 resources from Amazon S3 into a HealthLake data store. Supports starting, describing, and listing import jobs with up to 1 milli...
AWS HealthLake FHIR Export API
Asynchronous bulk export API for exporting FHIR R4 resources from a HealthLake data store to Amazon S3. Supports starting, describing, listing, and canceling export jobs, and ex...
AWS HealthLake FHIR R4 Server API
Transactional FHIR R4 server endpoints for reading, writing, searching, and validating FHIR resources within a data store. Supports SMART on FHIR authorization, FHIR Bulk Data A...
AWS HealthLake Resource Tagging API
API operations for adding, listing, and removing tags on HealthLake resources such as data stores. Supports up to 200 tags per resource for cost allocation and resource management.
AWS HealthLake Datastore API
Operations for creating, describing, listing, and deleting FHIR R4 data stores
AWS HealthLake Export API
Asynchronous bulk export operations for exporting FHIR resources to Amazon S3
AWS HealthLake Import API
Asynchronous bulk import operations for loading FHIR resources from Amazon S3
AWS HealthLake Tags API
Resource tagging operations for cost allocation and resource management
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GraphQL 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 HealthLake GraphQL Schema
AWS HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible, FHIR R4-compliant managed service for importing, transforming, storing, and querying health data from patients and clinical systems. This con...
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.
Aws Healthlake Plans
PLANSRate 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 Healthlake 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 Healthlake Finops
FINOPSSemantic 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.
context Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
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 HealthLake API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 36
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.
CreateFHIRDatastoreRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateFHIRDatastoreResponse
JSON SCHEMADatastoreProperties
JSON SCHEMADeleteFHIRDatastoreRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteFHIRDatastoreResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeFHIRDatastoreRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeFHIRDatastoreResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeFHIRExportJobRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeFHIRExportJobResponse
JSON SCHEMADescribeFHIRImportJobRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeFHIRImportJobResponse
JSON SCHEMAErrorCause
JSON SCHEMAExportJobProperties
JSON SCHEMAIdentityProviderConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAImportJobProperties
JSON SCHEMAInputDataConfig
JSON SCHEMAKmsEncryptionConfig
JSON SCHEMAListFHIRDatastoresRequest
JSON SCHEMAListFHIRDatastoresResponse
JSON SCHEMAListFHIRExportJobsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListFHIRExportJobsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListFHIRImportJobsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListFHIRImportJobsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListTagsForResourceRequest
JSON SCHEMAListTagsForResourceResponse
JSON SCHEMAOutputDataConfig
JSON SCHEMAPreloadDataConfig
JSON SCHEMAS3Configuration
JSON SCHEMASseConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAStartFHIRExportJobRequest
JSON SCHEMAStartFHIRExportJobResponse
JSON SCHEMAStartFHIRImportJobRequest
JSON SCHEMAStartFHIRImportJobResponse
JSON SCHEMATag
JSON SCHEMATagResourceRequest
JSON SCHEMAUntagResourceRequest
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 36 ·
Examples 13
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.
Createfhirdatastore
EXAMPLEDeletefhirdatastore
EXAMPLEDescribefhirdatastore
EXAMPLEDescribefhirexportjob
EXAMPLEDescribefhirimportjob
EXAMPLEListfhirdatastores
EXAMPLEListfhirexportjobs
EXAMPLEListfhirimportjobs
EXAMPLEListtagsforresource
EXAMPLEStartfhirexportjob
EXAMPLEStartfhirimportjob
EXAMPLETagresource
EXAMPLEUntagresource
EXAMPLEScroll within the panel for all 13 ·
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 AWS HealthLake — 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 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Access & Security 6
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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