AWS Service Integration
Explore how to integrate AWS services with API Gateway to securely expose APIs without using Lambda functions. Understand direct service invocation, proper payload mapping, and the benefits of controlled access to AWS resources through API Gateway.
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Service integration
AWS is a collection of RESTful web services (hence the name). All services in AWS expose an API that we can invoke with the necessary authentication. AWS services are available over HTTP without the API Gateway. In theory, it’s possible to invoke them remotely, even from the browser, but that requires extreme caution to follow the elaborate authentication framework. Otherwise, it can pose a security risk, which we want to avoid.
To understand this, open the AWS console in a browser. Then, open the browser’s developer tools and monitor the network traffic. A single click ...