Explore the core capabilities of Amazon API Gateway

Explore Amazon API Gateway, its key features, use cases, and role in creating, managing, securing, and monitoring scalable APIs, before applying these concepts through a practical demonstration of defining resources, methods, stages, and deployments.

Discover how to define and deploy APIs with Amazon API Gateway

Connect the key concepts through practical API configuration and deployment, exploring how Amazon API Gateway supports scalable API creation, management, monitoring, and security.

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Syllabus

Week 1
Introduction to Amazon API Gateway
- Introduction to Amazon API Gateway
  In this activity, you will explore Amazon API Gateway features, build resources and methods, deploy to stages, and examine key use cases with AWS Lambda and Amazon S3.

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What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Describe the key features and use cases of Amazon API Gateway.
Explain how Amazon API Gateway supports the creation, management, monitoring, and security of APIs.
Identify the roles of API resources, methods, stages, and deployments.
Demonstrate how to configure and deploy APIs using Amazon API Gateway.

Who is the course for?

This course is ideal for IT professionals, cloud engineers, software developers, solutions architects, and API developers who want to understand Amazon API Gateway

Who developed the course?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS is the world’s most comprehensive cloud, enabling organizations to accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and scale more efficiently.

What's included?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) are offering everyone who joins this course a free digital upgrade, so that you can experience the full benefits of studying online for free. This means that you get:

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A PDF Certificate of Achievement to prove your success when you’re eligible

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