AWS Service Endpoints
To connect programmatically to an AWS service, you use an endpoint. An
endpoint is the URL of the entry point for an AWS web service. For
example, https://dynamodb.us-west-2.amazonaws.com is the endpoint for the
Amazon DynamoDB service in the US West (Oregon) Region. The AWS SDKs and the AWS Command
Line Interface (CLI)
automatically use the default endpoint for each service in an AWS Region. But you
can
specify an alternate endpoint for your API requests.
To view the supported endpoints for an AWS service, go to Service Endpoints and Quotas, search for the service name, and click the link to go to the page for that service. To view the supported endpoints for all AWS services in the documentation without switching pages, view the information in the Service Endpoints and Quotas page in the PDF instead.
To see the supported AWS services in each Region (without endpoints) in a tabbed format, see the Region Table.
Regional Endpoints
Most Amazon Web Services offer a Regional endpoint that you can use to make your requests. If a service supports Regions, the resources in each Region are independent of similar resources in other Regions. For example, you can create an Amazon EC2 instance or an Amazon SQS queue in one Region. When you do, the instance or queue is independent of instances or queues in all other Regions.
Some services, such as IAM, do not support Regions. Thus, the endpoints for those
services do not include a Region. Other services, such as Amazon EC2, support Regions
but let you
specify an endpoint that does not include a Region, such as
https://ec2.amazonaws.com. When you use an endpoint with no Region, AWS
routes the Amazon EC2 request to US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1), which is the default
Region for API calls.
To learn about enabling and disabling AWS Regions, see Managing AWS Regions.
FIPS Endpoints
Some AWS services offer FIPS endpoints in selected AWS Regions. Unlike standard AWS endpoints, FIPS endpoints use a TLS software library that complies with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) standards. These endpoints might be required by enterprises that interact with the United States government.
To use FIPS endpoints in your requests, use the procedure in your AWS SDK for specifying
a custom endpoint. For example, when using the AWS Command Line Interface, use the
endpoint-url
parameter. The following example uses the FIPS endpoint in the US West (Oregon) Region
to
create an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer master key.
aws kms create-key --endpoint-url https://kms-fips.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
Learn More About Endpoints
You can find endpoint information from the following sources:
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For information about the AWS services and endpoints available in the China (Beijing) Region, see China (Beijing) Region Endpoints.
For information about the AWS services and endpoints available in the China (Ningxia) Region, see China (Ningxia) Region Endpoints.
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For information about the AWS services and endpoints available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, see AWS GovCloud (US-West) Endpoints.
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To programmatically discover AWS Region and service information, see Calling AWS Service, Region, and Endpoint Public Parameters in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide. For information about how to use AWS Systems Manager public parameters, see Query for AWS Regions, Endpoints, and More Using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.
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For information about which Regions and endpoints are supported for each service, see the Service Endpoints and Quotas.
