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Request Integration

Explore the concept of request integration in AWS API Gateway, understanding how it transforms and routes requests to internal and external APIs. Learn how the Gateway abstracts complexities like security and authentication, enabling seamless communication between distributed systems through data mapping and service integrations.

What's integration?

Modern distributed systems span multiple components implemented across the globe, which must communicate with each other for the enterprise to work as a whole. These systems are developed independently by different, often unrelated parties. We can’t just plug and play such APIs into our application. Integration is the term used for a collection of tools and techniques for connecting such systems.

An important component of such integration is data mapping. The information content of the API request from the caller is roughly the same as the information required to execute the API. Similarly, the information content of the response is what ...