Building APIs

After covering an introduction to API Gateway, there are a few more concepts and details to learn before we create our own API. We'll start by reviewing the concepts then explain some of the ways to create and build APIs.

An API built and deployed to Amazon API Gateway is made up of resources, methods, and integrations. To show examples of what these look like in the console, we're going to use a real API that has been built to control the garage doors at home.

Don't worry, this API has the proper security controls in place:

The API Gateway console showing the method execution page for a GET method

First up are resources, which ...

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