Amazon API Gateway

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What job does it solve?

APIs need managed routing, authorization integration, throttling, or request handling features.

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Where does it stop?

A general Layer 7 load balancer directly to targets is sufficient.

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Closely related services

• AWS LambdaRuns event-driven function code on managed infrastructure and scales executions within configured limits.
• Application Load BalancerLayer 7 load balancer for HTTP and HTTPS content-based routing to targets.
• Amazon CloudFrontA content delivery network that serves and can cache HTTP content at edge locations near viewers.

IN THIS COURSE

Lessons that mention it

• Lesson 17Scale workers without overwhelming the database
• Lesson 18Choose the right front door—and cache only safe data
• Lesson 27Prove the system can detect, limit, and recover
• Lesson 46Throttling, quotas, and cost-safe demand shaping

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