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What's API Gateway?

Explore the fundamentals of AWS API Gateway and understand why it is essential for building scalable, secure, and cost-effective serverless APIs. This lesson covers creating a simple API, key configurations, and the advantages beyond using only Lambda functions.

API gateway - “hello world”

It’s fair to ask why we need the API Gateway when we can develop the full API using Lambda function alone. It’s because API Gateway offers us a lot more than this. It has several features that help us scale the API beyond this.

The power and versatility of the Lambda functions are impressive. But, in the process, many of us miss out on the features available in the other supporting services. If we master them, our applications can scale ...