Amazon API Gateway
Description
Comprehensive understanding of AWS API Gateway including REST and WebSocket APIs, authentication, throttling, caching, and integration with backend services.
Learning Objectives
Learners will master API Gateway concepts including creating and managing REST and WebSocket APIs, implementing authentication and authorization mechanisms, configuring request/response transformations, setting up throttling and caching, monitoring API performance, and integrating with Lambda functions and other AWS services for building scalable API backends.
Topics (8)
Setting up REST API resources, configuring HTTP methods, implementing integration types including Lambda proxy, HTTP proxy, and AWS service integrations.
Configuring API authentication using IAM roles, Amazon Cognito User Pools, Lambda custom authorizers, and API key management.
Implementing request/response mapping templates, data transformation using Velocity Template Language (VTL), and API request/response models.
Configuring throttling limits, burst limits, usage plans, API keys, and implementing rate limiting strategies for different client tiers.
Implementing API caching, cache key strategies, cache invalidation, and performance optimization techniques for API Gateway.
Setting up WebSocket APIs, managing connections, implementing route selection, and building real-time applications with persistent connections.
Setting up CloudWatch monitoring, access logging, execution logging, X-Ray tracing, and analyzing API performance metrics and errors.
Core concepts including REST APIs, resources, methods, stages, and understanding the API Gateway service architecture and capabilities.