name: Amazon API Rate Limits
specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: Amazon (Web Services + Marketplace + Ads)
providerId: amazon
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-04'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Rate Limiting
  - Cloud + Commerce
  - Cloud
description: Amazon (Web Services + Marketplace + Ads) rate limits are per-service. Each service publishes
  its own quotas and request rate limits.
sources:
  - https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/
  - https://focus.finops.org/
headers:
  retryAfter: Retry-After
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
  throttledLegacy: 503
limits:
  - name: Per-service quotas
    scope: account/region/service
    metric: varies
    limit: see service-specific quotas page
    notes: Most services have account-level + per-region quotas + soft/hard limits.
  - name: Throttling
    scope: account/region/service
    metric: varies
    limit: service-specific TPS / RPM
    notes: Backoff with exponential retry per AWS/GCP/Azure SDK best practices.
policies:
  - name: Soft vs hard limits
    description: Soft limits can be raised via support tickets; hard limits cannot.
  - name: Exponential backoff
    description: Standard SDK retry behavior with jitter.
  - name: Per-region scoping
    description: Most quotas are per-region per-service per-account.