Features of Amazon API Gateway
- API creation and deployment: Creating different types of APIs and managing them will be very easy.
- Authorization and access control: With the help of IAM roles, IAM policies, and custom authorizers you can achieve authorization and control mechanisms that API Gateway offers for your APIs.
- Traffic management: Load balancing, throttling and chaching are the some of the services offered by the API Gateway to managethe traffic.
- API versioning: Based on the request you API Gateway will route the traffic to the and to route traffic to the appropriate version based on the client’s request.
Amazon Web Service – Introduction to API Gateway
Firstly, API stands for Application Program Interface. An API Gateway is a management tool that acts as an interface between users and microservices. The Amazon API Gateway is an AWS service that allows users to create, publish, secure, maintain and monitor APIs at any scale. You can create APIs in your client application and can also make them available to third-party developers. It is serverless. It supports HTTP, WebSocket, and REST APIs. API Gateway is a type of server that provides the service of API which is used to customize each client.
The Netflix API Gateway is the most popular example of API Gateway. Many e‑commerce site uses an API gateway to provide the endpoint for retrieving the details of all products from mobile clients with only a single request. So, This invokes many different services like the proper information of product, and product reviews and then combines the results.
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