Rest API
Explore the fundamentals of REST APIs as implemented in AWS API Gateway. Understand key concepts like resources, methods, integration requests, and response handling. Learn how to configure APIs, manage different endpoints, and deploy them to stages for effective environment control. This lesson helps you build a solid foundation in creating and managing REST APIs within AWS.
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What’s the REST API?
The Representational State Transfer (REST) API is today’s most common and popular API specification. It’s popular because of its simplicity and extendability. Most web services exported by AWS are REST APIs. No wonder API Gateway provides us with solid support for REST API development.
REST API in AWS API Gateway
Any REST API definition has three components, namely the URL, the HTTP method, and the definition for request/response payloads. Let’s see how we can implement it with the AWS API Gateway.
Open the “AWS Console - API Gateway” page to see the API we created in the previous chapter.
We can see that it has created a ...