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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.

agent aware

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 AWS HealthLake 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 — AWS HealthLake scores 59.4/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 20/100 (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.

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AWS HealthLake Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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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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Postman Collections 4

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).

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...

GRAPHQL

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 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.

Aws Healthlake Plans

2 plans

PLANS

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 Healthlake Rate Limits

33 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 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

0 classes · 42 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral 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

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON 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

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateFHIRDatastoreResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DatastoreProperties

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteFHIRDatastoreRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteFHIRDatastoreResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeFHIRDatastoreRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeFHIRDatastoreResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeFHIRExportJobRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeFHIRExportJobResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeFHIRImportJobRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeFHIRImportJobResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorCause

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ExportJobProperties

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IdentityProviderConfiguration

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImportJobProperties

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InputDataConfig

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

KmsEncryptionConfig

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListFHIRDatastoresRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListFHIRDatastoresResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListFHIRExportJobsRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListFHIRExportJobsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListFHIRImportJobsRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListFHIRImportJobsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListTagsForResourceRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListTagsForResourceResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OutputDataConfig

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PreloadDataConfig

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

S3Configuration

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SseConfiguration

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StartFHIRExportJobRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StartFHIRExportJobResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StartFHIRImportJobRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StartFHIRImportJobResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tag

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TagResourceRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UntagResourceRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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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

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Deletefhirdatastore

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Describefhirdatastore

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Describefhirexportjob

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Describefhirimportjob

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Listfhirdatastores

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Listfhirexportjobs

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Listfhirimportjobs

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Listtagsforresource

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Startfhirexportjob

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Startfhirimportjob

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Tagresource

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Untagresource

5 fields

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.

Aws Healthlake Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Aws Healthlake Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Aws Healthlake Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Aws Healthlake 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.

Aws Healthlake Agentic Access

13 operations · 13 acting

13 operations · 13 acting

AGENTIC

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

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of AWS HealthLake, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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