Enables developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale

HIPAA eligible service

Allows creating, deploying and managing a RESTful API to expose backend HTTP endpoints, Lambda functions
or other AWS services
Concepts
API deployment
a point-in-time snapshot of your API Gateway API resource and methods. To be available for
clients to use, the deployment must be associated with one or more API stages
API endpoints
host names APIs in API Gateway, which are deployed to a specific region and of the format: rest-
api-id.execute-api.region.amazonaws.com
Usage Plan
Provides selected API clients with access to one or more deployed APISs. You can use a usage
plan to configure throttling and quota limits, which are enforced on individual client API keys
Features:
Amazon API Gateway provides throttling at multiple levels including global and by a service call.
Throttling limits can be set for standard rates and bursts.
For example, API owners can set a rate limit of 1,000 requests per second for a specific method in
their REST APIs, and also configure Amazon API Gateway to handle a burst of 2,000 requests per
second for a few seconds.