#100DaysofAWS | Day 40 | Amazon API Gateway

Good day everyone!

Today I will be talking all about an extremely powerful service.

Amazon API Gateway!

First of all, what even is an API?

API is not a type of beer, despite sounding like one.

Application programming interfaces, (APIs) simplify software development and innovation by enabling apps to exchange all manners of data and functionality easily and securely. They have revolutionised the way communication takes place on the web, and are used ubiquitously.

One of the chief advantages of APIs is that they allow the abstraction of functionality between one system and another. An API endpoint decouples the consuming application from the infrastructure that provides a service. As long as the specification for what the service provider is delivering to the endpoint remains unchanged, the alterations to the infrastructure behind the endpoint should not be noticed by the applications that rely on that API.

Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. APIs act as the “front door” for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your backend services. Using API Gateway, you can create RESTful APIs…