AWS Price List Service

Name: AWS Price List Service API
Brand: AWS Price List Service
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For Agents

Look up live AWS service pricing, SKUs, and price dimensions, and download historical price-list files for cost analysis.

Connect the AWS Price List Service to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the AWS Price List Service, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Install Jentic One Beta (Self-Hosted)

Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with AWS Price List Service API.

List all AWS services and their filterable attributes via DescribeServices

Enumerate the values an attribute can take (e.g., instanceType, location) with GetAttributeValues

Filter products by service code, region, and attribute combinations using GetProducts

Retrieve historical price-list metadata across regions and effective dates with ListPriceLists

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View OpenAPI Document

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for AWS Price List Service, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for the AWS Price List Service, keeping it validated and agent-ready. The Price List Service exposes the public AWS pricing catalogue programmatically: services, their attributes, every SKU and price dimension, and downloadable historical price lists. The API has five operations covering service discovery, attribute enumeration, product price filtering, and signed URLs to price-list files. It is the canonical source for cost-estimator tools, FinOps automation, and cloud-pricing dashboards that need fresh AWS rates without screen-scraping the AWS pricing pages.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use AWS Price List Service API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Programmatic Cost Estimation

Build a cost estimator that fetches live AWS rates rather than hard-coded prices. GetProducts with serviceCode 'AmazonEC2' and filters for instanceType, location, operatingSystem, and tenancy returns the matching SKUs with OnDemand and Reserved pricing terms. Useful for self-service quote tools and cost calculators inside internal portals.

Call GetProducts with ServiceCode 'AmazonEC2' and Filters [{Type:'TERM_MATCH',Field:'instanceType',Value:'m5.large'},{Field:'location',Value:'US East (N. Virginia)'},{Field:'operatingSystem',Value:'Linux'}]

FinOps Anomaly Detection

Compare current AWS prices against last quarter's effective rates to catch unexpected SKU price changes. ListPriceLists returns versioned price-list files for a service across effective dates and currencies; GetPriceListFileUrl produces a signed download URL for the JSON or CSV file. Pipe both into a diff job to flag SKUs with rate changes.

Call ListPriceLists with ServiceCode 'AmazonEC2', EffectiveDate one quarter ago, and CurrencyCode 'USD', then call GetPriceListFileUrl for the returned PriceListArn with FileFormat 'json'

Region and Service Coverage Lookups

Answer 'is service X available in region Y, and at what rate' questions inside an internal Slack bot or runbook. DescribeServices lists all services and the attributes you can filter on, and GetAttributeValues lists values such as available locations. Combined with GetProducts they let an agent answer regional availability and pricing in a single workflow.

Call GetAttributeValues with ServiceCode 'AmazonRDS' and AttributeName 'location' and return the list of regions where RDS pricing is published

AI Agent Cost Lookup Tool via Jentic

A FinOps agent uses Jentic to discover the Price List Service, load GetProducts, and answer cost questions in chat with live data. Jentic stores the AWS access key in its vault and applies SigV4 to each request, so the agent only handles the natural-language question and the structured pricing response.

Use Jentic to search 'get aws ec2 on demand price', load GetProducts, and execute it with the user's instanceType, region, and operatingSystem

Key Endpoints

5 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for the aws price list service, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=AWSPriceListService.DescribeServices

List AWS services and their filterable attributes

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=AWSPriceListService.GetAttributeValues

Enumerate values for a service attribute

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=AWSPriceListService.GetProducts

Filter products and return SKU pricing terms

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=AWSPriceListService.ListPriceLists

List versioned price-list files for a service across dates

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=AWSPriceListService.GetPriceListFileUrl

Get a signed URL to download a price-list file

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=AWSPriceListService.DescribeServices

List AWS services and their filterable attributes

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=AWSPriceListService.GetAttributeValues

Enumerate values for a service attribute

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=AWSPriceListService.GetProducts

Filter products and return SKU pricing terms

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=AWSPriceListService.ListPriceLists

List versioned price-list files for a service across dates

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=AWSPriceListService.GetPriceListFileUrl

Get a signed URL to download a price-list file

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

AWS access keys are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault and SigV4 signatures are produced per call, so agents never see raw secret access keys.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (e.g., 'get aws ec2 on demand price') and Jentic returns GetProducts with its filter schema, so the agent passes the right serviceCode and filter fields.

Time to first call

Direct integration: half a day for SDK setup, IAM scoping, region routing (us-east-1 / ap-south-1), and SigV4 signing. Through Jentic: under 30 minutes.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

AWS Cost Explorer

Cost Explorer reports actual spend; Price List Service provides the catalogue of rates

Use Cost Explorer for what an account has actually spent; use Price List Service when projecting cost for a workload not yet running.

Complementary

AWS Budgets

Trigger alerts when cost or usage breaches a budget defined in dollar terms derived from price-list rates

Use Budgets after a price-list lookup to enforce spending guardrails on the projected cost.

Complementary

AWS Cost and Usage Reports

Detailed line-item billing data; pair with Price List to reconcile actual line items against catalogue rates

Use CUR for billing line items and Price List to validate the unit prices applied to those line items.

FAQs

Specific to using AWS Price List Service API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for the AWS Price List Service?

AWS does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call the AWS Price List Service via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the AWS Price List Service use?

The API uses AWS SigV4 HMAC request signing with an AWS access key ID and secret. Through Jentic, AWS credentials are stored in the vault and SigV4 signatures are produced per request, so the agent never holds raw secrets.

Which regions can I call this API from?

The Price List Service is hosted only in us-east-1 and ap-south-1; the data it returns covers all AWS regions. Set your AWS region to one of those endpoints when calling DescribeServices, GetProducts, ListPriceLists, or GetPriceListFileUrl.

Can I get historical AWS prices through this API?

Yes. ListPriceLists returns price-list versions effective on or before a given EffectiveDate. Pass the returned PriceListArn into GetPriceListFileUrl with FileFormat 'json' or 'csv' to download the snapshot.

What are the rate limits for the Price List API?

The Price List Service applies account-level request quotas and may return ThrottlingException under burst load. AWS does not publish a fixed per-second number; back off and retry on throttles, and cache responses since pricing changes infrequently.

How do I look up an EC2 price through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'get aws ec2 on demand price', load GetProducts, and execute it with ServiceCode 'AmazonEC2' and filters for instanceType, location, and operatingSystem. Install with pip install jentic; AWS credentials are read from the Jentic vault.