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AWS API Gateway | Introduction | Hands-on | Certification tips | AWS Community Builders

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Let’s start exploring AWS API Gateway –

What is API?
API stands for an Application programming interface.

An API is a set of definitions and protocols for building and integrating application software.

What is API Gateway?
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 and WebSocket APIs that enable real-time two-way communication applications.

API Gateway supports containerized and serverless workloads, as well as web applications.

What are stages in API Gateway? How it is useful for API Gateway deployment?
Stages referred to as different environments such as “DEV/QA/PROD/TEST”.

In API Gateway has different stages – in which perform deployment of API’s and testing.

Each API is isolated to different stages.

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