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Introduction to API Gateway

Introduction to API Gateway - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Introduction to API Gateway

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- [Instructor] Amazon API Gateway is one of the most popular triggers for AWS Lambda to create serverless backend. Let's look in more detail and explore some possible use cases. API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. You can create an API that acts as a front door for your applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your backend services. Amazon API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to 200,000 of concurrent API calls including traffic management, authorization, access control, monitoring, and API version management. Amazon API Gateway has not minimum fees or startup costs. You pay only for the APIs calls you receive and the amount of data transferred out. How does API Gateway work? On the left, we have all the different services that can call API Gateway,…

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