Amazon IoT Device Defender Thing Groups API
The Thing Groups API from Amazon IoT Device Defender — 6 operation(s) for thing groups.
Amazon IoT Device Defender Thing Groups API is one of 69 APIs that Amazon IoT Device Defender publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Thing Groups. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a getting-started guide, and pricing.
This API exposes 9 operations across 6 paths, and defines 39 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 Device Defender Thing Groups 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 9
Across 6 paths, the API surfaces 9 operations — 1 DELETE, 3 GET, 1 PATCH, 1 POST, 3 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 39
The contract defines 39 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are DescribeThingGroupResponse (10 properties), CreateThingGroupResponse (3 properties), ThingGroupMetadata (3 properties), Tag (2 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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