API Gateway allows developers to create APIs that act as the front door for applications to manage access and traffic. It can be used to expose serverless applications on the internet by allowing communication between frontends like websites and backends like Lambda functions through a REST API. It also enables real-time communication between clients and backends by routing traffic to services like Lambda.
API Gateway allows developers to create APIs that act as the front door for applications to manage access and traffic. It can be used to expose serverless applications on the internet by allowing communication between frontends like websites and backends like Lambda functions through a REST API. It also enables real-time communication between clients and backends by routing traffic to services like Lambda.
API Gateway allows developers to create APIs that act as the front door for applications to manage access and traffic. It can be used to expose serverless applications on the internet by allowing communication between frontends like websites and backends like Lambda functions through a REST API. It also enables real-time communication between clients and backends by routing traffic to services like Lambda.
Fwd: Demystifying AWS API Gateway: The Front Door to Your
Application 🏛️
We’ve learned about the different API Gateway types, which leads us to two prominent use cases.
Exposing your Serverless Applications to the Internet
The typical web application is a client-server combination: a frontend, e.g.
a web page or a mobile app. A backend server to communicate with the frontend.
On the serverless side, your backend is a construct of one or multiple
Lambda functions that include your business logic. Exposing those functions to the internet is done via a REST or HTTP API Gateway that allows you to actively enforce rate-limiting, request validation, transformation, routing, authentication, and authorization without writing much or any code at all.
Real-Time Communication Between Your Clients and Your