Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway is an AWS service that enables REST, HTP, and web socket APIs to be created, published, maintained, monitored and secured on any scale. API developers can design APIs for accessing AWS or other online services and the AWS cloud data. You can construct APIs for your own customer applications as an API Gateway API Developer. Or you can make your APIs accessible to app developers from third parties. See Who utilises API Gateway for further information.
API Gateway creates
- HTTP-based RESTful APIs.
- Enable stateless communication between client and server.
- Implement HTTP standards such as GET, POST, PUT, path and delete. Implement HTTP standards.
API Gateway Characteristics
The amazon API Gateway offers:
- Static (WebSocket) and statusless (HTTP and REST) API support.
- Powerful, versatile authentication mechanisms, including AWS Identity and Access Management Policies, Amazon Cognito User Pools and Lambda authorising function.
- Deutsche API Developer Portal.
- Deployments for canary releases to securely implement modifications.
- Logging and tracking API use and modifications to APIs via CloudTrail.
- Including the ability to set alarms CloudWatch access and execution logging.
- Use of AWS CloudFormation templates to allow the construction of API.
- Custom domain names support. support.
- AWS WAF integration to secure your APIs from web vulnerabilities. integration.
- Integration with AWS X-Ray for performance latencies understanding and triage.
