We all agree that APIs are the key to integrating different components of your application and the endpoints for secure communication between various tiers of code. The APIs act as the "front door" for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your backend services, similar to a Load balancer for the front-end web application.
Hosting APIs securely and managing can be a difficult task. That's where we come in. We at Searce have the experience and expertise in building, maintaining, and monitoring the APIs at scale.
By leveraging the AWS Gateway, a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale, the DevOps team can now focus on application innovation rather than managing the infrastructure that hosts APIs.
Edge-optimized API endpoint
The following diagram is an illustrated example of the edge-optimized API endpoint where your API clients access your API through a CloudFront distribution created and managed by API Gateway.
Amazon API Gateway Features
Support for RESTful APIs and WebSocket APIs
With API Gateway, you can create RESTful APIs using either HTTP APIs or REST APIs. HTTP APIs are the best way to build APIs that do not require API management features. HTTP APIs are optimized for serverless workloads and HTTP backends—they offer up to 71% cost savings and 60% latency reduction compared to REST APIs from API Gateway.
Integrations with AWS ELB & other AWS Services
With API Gateway, you can route requests to private resources in your VPC. Using HTTP APIs, you can build APIs for services behind private ALBs, private NLBs, and IP-based services registered in AWS Cloud Map, such as ECS tasks.
Resiliency
Just like any other AWS Services, API Gateway too is highly resilient and backed by industry leading SLA's that are 99.95% or more. API Gateway handles any level of traffic received by an API, so you are free to focus on your business logic and services rather than maintaining infrastructure.
