Amazon IoT Core Things API
The Things API from Amazon IoT Core — 9 operation(s) for things.
Amazon IoT Core Things API is one of 70 APIs that Amazon IoT Core publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Things. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a getting-started guide, and pricing.
This API exposes 15 operations across 9 paths, and defines 61 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.0.
Requests are made against 4 base URLs: http://iot.{region}.amazonaws.com, https://iot.{region}.amazonaws.com, http://iot.{region}.amazonaws.com.cn, https://iot.{region}.amazonaws.com.cn.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Amazon IoT Core Things API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (hmac).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
hmac— Amazon Signature authorization v4
Paths & Operations 15
Across 9 paths, the API surfaces 15 operations — 3 DELETE, 6 GET, 1 PATCH, 2 POST, 3 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 61
The contract defines 61 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are JobExecution (11 properties), DescribeThingResponse (8 properties), JobExecutionSummary (6 properties), ThingAttribute (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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