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AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS

You're reading from   AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS Learn to secure your data, servers, and applications with AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789134513
Length 118 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Albert Anthony Albert Anthony
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Amazon API Gateway


As a developer, you have to work with APIs on a regular basis. Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed web service that helps to manage, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs for any workload running on EC2 instances, AWS Lambda, or any web application. You can use API Gateway to manage, authenticate, and secure hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls. Management of APIs includes access control, traffic management, monitoring, and API version management. All the APIs that are built using API Gateway support data over HTTP protocols. You can also run multiple versions of the same REST API by cloning the existing API. Let us look at the following benefits of using Amazon API Gateway:

  • Low cost and efficient: You pay for the requests that are made to your API, for example, $3.5 per million API calls, along with the cost of data transfer out, in gigabytes. You also have the option to choose cache for your API, and that will incur charges on an hourly basis. Apart...

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