Using the Amazon Price List Query API
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We recommend that you use the Price List Query API when you want to:
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Find pricing information about a product.
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Search for products and rates that match your filters.
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Quickly find products and prices that you need when you're developing applications that have limited resources, such as front-end environments.
IAM permissions
An Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) identity, such as a user or role, must have permission to use the Price List Query API. To grant access, use the following IAM policy.
{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "pricing:DescribeServices", "pricing:GetAttributeValues", "pricing:GetProducts" ], "Resource": [ "*" ] } ] }
Note
This policy only grants access to the Price List Query API. To also grant access to the Amazon Price List Bulk API, see the example Find products and prices policy.
Endpoints
The Price List Query API provides the following endpoints:
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https://api.pricing.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn
The Amazon Web Services Region is the API endpoint for the Price List Query API. The endpoints aren't related to product or service attributes.
To call the Price List Query API, see the following examples.
Quotas
Some Price List Query API operations are throttled by using a token bucket scheme to maintain service availability. These quotas are per Amazon Web Services account on a per Region basis. The following table shows the quotas for each API operation.
API operation | Token bucket size | Refill rate per second |
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DescribeServices |
10 | 5 |
GetAttributeValues |
10 | 5 |
GetProducts |
10 | 5 |
For more information about service quotas (formerly referred to as limits), see Amazon Web Service quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.