AWS::ApiGatewayV2::Api

• Serverless API Gateway

• Handle versioning
• Handle different environment (dev, test, prod, ...)
• Handle security (authentication & authorization)
• Request throttling
• Transform and validate requests and responses
• Cache API responses

Endpoint Types

• Edge-Optimized (default)
• For global clients
• Requests are routed through CloudFront Edges
• But the API Gateway service itself is still bound to a region
• Regional
• Clients within same region
• Can manually combine with cloudfront
• Private
• Accessed from within VPC

Request Flow

• Client -> Method Request -> Integration Request -> Service
• Service -> Integration Response -> Method Response -> Client

Properties

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-apigatewayv2-api.html

ProtocolType

• HTTP API: e.g., apps with cors, oauth, oidc
• WebSocket API: e.g., chats, dashboards
• REST API