Creating our first API with AWS

This section will be a simple but concise walk-through of setting up your own API within AWS. We aren't going to worry about connecting any services to it – we will do that in later exercises when inspecting traffic and manipulating calls on to the API. 

The following are instructions that will help guide you through creating an API that you can use throughout this chapter. To get started, log in to the AWS console and follow these steps:

1. Search for the api service in the search bar at the main menu of the AWS console:

   Figure 8.2 – Searching for api

2. Next, you'll be given a list of APIs to choose from. Select REST API and click Build:

   Figure 8.3 – Building an API

3. Now you'll need to configure the API. Make sure that you choose REST and New API. You'll need to provide input for API name. For this example, we have called the API PentestPacktAWS. You may call your API whatever you like, but ensure...