Advanced Use of Amazon API Gateway

Difficulty: Advanced

Duration: 2 minutes

Students: 669

Rating: 4.7/5

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 taking a deeper dive into 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