What is Amazon API Gateway?
Amazon API gateway is fully managed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) which makes it easier to publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. APIs act as a server between client applications and backend services if clients make any API request they will all go through this particular API. APIs are responsible for routing the request from the client side to the appropriate services, as well as performing other tasks such as authentication, authorization, and traffic management. Following are some of the features that make it more powerful.
- Traffic Management
- CORS support
- Authorization, authentication, and Access Control
- Request routing, shaping, and Management
- Throttling (The process of limiting the number of API requests a user can make in a certain period)
- API Health Monitoring
- API version Management
- Load balancing
- Caching
- Static response handling
- Protocol translation
- Composition
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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