Create a REST API on AWS in 8 clicks | Step by Step Tutorial

In this video, I show you how to create a REST API on AWS using API Gateway and Lambda.

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AWS API Gateway
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[prithviboinpally]

Amazing tutorial. Short, easy to follow, and quickly introduces us to all the most important stuff in Lambda

[kishor]

Best set of tutorials i have found in last few weeks of googling AWS related content. It makes me do programming all again.

[VishalRaoOnYouTube]

Nice and concise! I'm so glad I found your channel!
A few video requests:
1. Lambda Authorizers
2. Using API Keys in API Gateway
3. AWS DocumentDB

[kartikey]

I typed the exact same code but it displays : "message": "Internal server error" every time

[dimatall]

Hi Daniel. I have a question about "Cold Start".
It takes some time to run the instance on first request. How do you minimize the latency in cold starts ? Is it visible to your end users ?

[ourtrishan]

Could you please provide us a video on stage variables of API gateway? Also could you please tell us how to configure a lambda function for different environments like qa or staging?

[whoaMI-mihb]

Is it Possible to manage instances(EC2) in AWS using REST API thru Postman ? For example - If I want to pull instances report using REST and then Create or modify instances using REST POST method (Powershell or Python)!

[rahulroyTFT]

If you were to change the postman request body @3:49 from text to json, will the event['body'] still be string?

[itwarehub]

can you build a demo to receive Image on lambda function using API?

[andherium]

Why would I want create an API gateway when I can simply create the function URL?

[shahidanwar]

Please help me, how to save request and response json of a already deployed rest api in dynamo db automatically.

[Gameplays-DvdFortoul]

hi I was doing the test but I always get the same error {"message": "Forbidden"}

[lowercaseguy]

I proceeded the same but couldn't get the desired results