Amazon API Gateway Concepts

External

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/api-reference/resource/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/api-reference/link-relation/

Internal

• REST and Hypermedia
• Amazon API Gateway

REST and Hypermedia Concepts

Resource, Method, Request, Response

Amazon API Gateway

Amazon API Gateway is the preferred way to expose internal AWS endpoints to external clients, in form of a consistent and scalable programming REST interface (REST API). Amazon API Gateway can expose internal HTTP(S) endpoints - representing custom services, AWS Lambda functions and other AWS services, such as Amazon Kinesis or Amazon S3. The backend endpoints are exposed by creating an API Gateway REST API (RestApi) and integrating API methods with their corresponding backend endpoints. Each of the backend endpoints specified above is associated with an integration type.

Amazon Gateway URL

The URL is determined by a protocol (HTTP(S) or WSS), a hostname, a stage name and, for REST APIs, the resource path.

Amazon Gateway API Base URL

The hostname and the stage name determine the API's base URL.

Amazon Gateway Hostname

https://{restapi-id}.execute-api.{region}.amazonaws.com

Integration

Integration Response

Also see IntegrationResponse below.

Amazon API Gateway Resources that Require Redeployment

Where are these resources living?

IntegrationResponse

Also see Integration Response above.

Amazon API Gateway Resources that Require Configuration Changes without Redeployment

Deployment (API Deployment)

A Deployment resource represents a REST API deployment in Amazon API Gateway. The Deployment is like an executable of an API represented by a RestApi resource. Once an RestApi is created, it requires deployment and association with a stage to make it callable by its users. To call a deployed URL, clients submit requests against the API's URL.

Resource updates require redeploying the API, whereas configuration updates to not.

Stage

Stage

An API stage is represented by a Stage resource and represents a named reference to a deployment, and at the same time, a snapshot of the API, including methods, integrations, models, mapping templates, Lambda authorizers, etc.

API Documentation

See DocumentationPart and DocumentationVersion above.

X-Ray Integration

API request latency issues can be troubleshot by enabling AWS X-Ray. AWS X-Ray can be used to trance API requests and downstream services.