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Python Essentials for AWS Cloud Developers
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Python Essentials for AWS Cloud Developers

by Serkan Sakinmaz
May 2023
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
4h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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9

Creating an API in AWS

In this chapter, we are going to learn how to create an application programming interface (API) via API Gateway. API Gateway is an AWS service that allows you to create and maintain an API. With the API Gateway service, you don’t need to provision a server; AWS manages it in the backend. In addition to that, API Gateway helps you to monitor incoming and outgoing requests. Another advantage of API Gateway is to scale up your API services when there is a huge request from users.

The chapter covers the following topics:

  • What is API Gateway?
  • Creating an API using API Gateway

What is API Gateway?

API Gateway is an AWS service that is used to create, maintain, and publish an API. API Gateway supports multiple API protocols, ...

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