API Gateway
Explore the role of AWS API Gateway in serverless computing to create, deploy, and manage secure APIs. Understand its support for multiple protocols, throttling, caching, security features, and deployment stages to build resilient, scalable backend integrations.
API Gateway is a fully managed service that allows us to create, publish, monitor, and maintain APIs. Essentially, API Gateway acts as a bridge, enabling seamless interactions between various services, applications, or microservices.
An API acts as the front door for our backend application services. Traditionally, developers would write code to route requests with the backend. However, integrating a managed service such as an API gateway to route requests to the backend can spare the developer from writing code. With an API gateway, we can put multiple backends behind a single domain that work together as a complete agile enterprise application.
Support for various protocols
API Gateway supports various API protocols such as HTTP APIs, REST APIs, Web Socket APIs, Mock APIs, GraphQL APIs, and SOAP APIs.
REST APIs: A widely used, straightforward service integration pattern commonly employed for one-way communication ...