# How Epiphany Interacts with the AWS API

Epiphany will make numerous API calls to collect its necessary data points for further analysis and model generation. These are read-only calls. They focus on the following topics:

* VPCs
* EC2
* S3
* Network Firewalls
* IAM
* Security Groups

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The API calls Epiphany uses are always contained with a **read-only** scope and will never alter current configurations.
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