Introduction to API Gateway
This Lesson covers Amazon's API Gateway service, which will help you create some incredibly robust APIs for your workloads. We'll look at the different types of APIs you can create and the fundamentals of how API Gateway works.
Learning Objectives
- Understand what types of APIs API gateway can create
- Learn about the general differences between those API types
- Learn how an API Gateway functions at a high level
Intended Audience
- Solution architects
- Developers
- Anyone interested in creating their own business-ready APIs
Prerequisites
To get the most out of this Lesson, you should have a decent understanding of cloud computing and cloud architectures, specifically on Amazon Web Services. It would be helpful to know about HTTP and web technologies in general, but it's not essential.
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