Introduction to API Gateway
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 17 minutes and 48 seconds
Students: 335
Rating: 4.6/5
This lesson provides detail on the AWS Networking and Content Delivery services relevant to the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam.
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Learning Objectives
- Get a foundational understanding of VPCs, their security, and connectivity
- Understand the basics of networking including Elastic IP addresses, Elastic Network Interfaces, networking with EC2, VPC endpoints, and AWS Global Accelerator
- Learn about Domain Name System (DNS) services and how Amazon Route 53 provides them
- Understand the basics of APIs
- Learn about HTTP and internet communication
- Understand the difference between HTTP and REST
- Understand what types of APIs API gateway can create
- The general differences between those API types
- How an API gateway functions at a high level
- Give you an understanding of Amazon CloudFront and its high-level process of operation
- Understand what an elastic load balancer is and what is used for
- Be aware of the different load balancers available to you in AWS
- Understand how ELBs handle different types of requests, including those that are encrypted
- Be able to identify the different components of ELBs
- Know how to configure ELBs
- Know when and why you might need to configure an SSL/TLS certificate
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