Create your first REST API
API Gateway provides the ability to view, create, and manage REST APIs, and publish the APIs to a configured destination for consumption. This section describes how you can create your first REST API in API Gateway.
What is a REST API?
Representational State Transfer (REST) protocol defines a set of architectural principles that allow accessing and manipulating resources by using capabilities already built into HTTP using HTTP methods. The following are the key points of REST protocol:
Serves the data directly on HTTP
Easier and faster to access the data
In API Gateway, you can create REST APIs by importing it in two ways:
Using file
Using URL