AWS Serverless Microservices with Patterns and Best Practices - API Gateway as a Lambda Synchronous Event Sources

The video tutorial explains the role of API Gateway as a synchronous event source for AWS Lambda. It highlights the advantages of synchronous commands, such as immediate response, and discusses their use in CRUD operations. The tutorial also covers the disadvantages of synchronous communication, including potential blocking and timeouts. Finally, it emphasizes API Gateway's effectiveness as a synchronous trigger for AWS Lambda, especially in API management and serverless microservices development.

Discuss the disadvantages of synchronous communication as mentioned in the text.

How can API Gateway be utilized to perform CRUD operations on AWS Lambda functions?