Amazon has updated its API rate policy, reducing usage limits for accounts that do not generate sufficient affiliate revenue. Your API access may be temporarily revoked for the following reasons:
1. Exceeding API Call Limits
- Amazon calculates API call limits based on your affiliate revenue performance over the last 30 days.
- If the number of API requests exceeds the allocated limit for the day, access will be revoked temporarily.
- The API access will automatically resume the next day.
- Your API call limit increases as your account generates more affiliate revenue.
2. No Referring Sales in the Last 30 Days
- If your account has not generated any sales via the API in the past 30 days, access will be temporarily revoked.
- Solution: Start driving affiliate sales again, and Amazon will restore API access automatically once revenue generation resumes.
For more details, refer to Amazon’s API policy.