Effective DevOps with AWS

API Gateway

The API Gateway service, as its name suggests, is a service geared toward creating and managing APIs' endpoints. From an architecture standpoint, the service can be seen a little bit like a load balancer such as the ALB or ELB that we saw earlier in the chapter. The ALB gives us the ability to do path-based routing and, for example, send all calls where the path starts with /api/ to the API service hosted on a specific Auto Scaling group. In the case of the API gateway service, the configuration goes one step further and, in addition to defining the path, we can also define a method (GET, POST, PUT, OPTIONS) and the integration type that can be almost anything (any AWS managed service, HTTP forwarding, or a static answer). This ...