The primary benefit of this solution is that it provides a fully managed, global scale perimeter around the system that allows self-sufficient, full-stack teams to focus on their value proposition. The perimeter acts as a bulkhead to protect the internals of the system from attacks at the boundaries of the system. These cross-cutting concerns no longer permeate the business logic, which makes that code easier to maintain and removes the need to allocate resources to support processing that logic. The dedicated infrastructure of the API gateway automatically scales elastically.
Security is performed at the edge of the cloud. We typically only consider CDNs for their ability to cache static content at the edge. However, cloud ...
