AWS Serverless Microservices with Patterns and Best Practices - Architecture of API Gateway

The video tutorial explains the architecture and functions of Amazon API Gateway. It covers how API Gateway provides a consistent development experience for building APIs using AWS Serverless applications. The tutorial details the tasks handled by API Gateway, such as traffic management, authorization, and monitoring. It also describes API Gateway's role as a front door for accessing backend services and its use in exposing microservice APIs for client applications like product basket and ordering microservices.

What does the API Gateway provide when creating APIs in Amazon?

• An integrated and consistent development experience

• A disconnected and fragmented development experience

• A complex and inconsistent development experience

• A limited and manual development experience

Which of the following is NOT a task handled by API Gateway?

• Traffic management

• Database management

• Authorization and access control

• API version management

API Gateway acts as a front door for applications to access which of the following?

• Frontend services

• Backend services

• Database services

• Network services

Which AWS service is mentioned as a backend service that API Gateway can access?

• Amazon EC2

• Amazon S3

• Amazon RDS

• Amazon DynamoDB

For what purpose is API Gateway used in relation to microservices?

• To limit microservice functionality

• To replace microservices

• To expose microservice APIs

• To hide microservices