API reference

This section contains the API Reference documentation.

HTTP headers

In addition to the usual HTTP headers, Amazon Translate operations have the required headers:

Header	Value	Description
Content-Type:	application/x-amz-json-1.1	Specifies that the request content is JSON. Also specifies the JSON version.
X-Amz-Date:	<Date>	The date used to create the signature in the Authorization header. The format must be ISO 8601 basic in the YYYYMMDD'T'HHMMSS'Z' format. For example, the following date/time 20180820T184626Z is a valid x-amz-date for use with Amazon Translate. For more information about using the Authorization header, see Using Signature Version 4 with Amazon Translate .
X-Amz-Target:	AWSShineFrontendService_20170701.<operation>	The target Amazon Translate operation. For example, use AWSShineFrontendService_20170701.TranslateText to call the TranslateText operation.