Advanced API Gateway

This lesson covers a few of the more advanced topics within API Gateway that can help take your architectures to the next level. API Gateway is a powerful tool that can provide security, dependability, and flexibility to many designs and applications.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the lifecycle of a request within API Gateway and what actions we can perform at each stage
• Learn how to secure your API Gateway using AWS WAF, CORS, and Mutual TLS
• Learn about private integration and how you can access custom backend services that use EC2, EKS, and ECS
  

Intended Audience

This lesson is for solutions architects, developers, or generally curious people, who are interested in learning a deeper dive on API Gateway.

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson, you should have:

• A decent understanding of cloud computing and cloud architectures, specifically with Amazon Web Services
• Basic knowledge of API Gateway and some of its primary features
• Basic knowledge of AWS WAF, CORS, and TLS