AWS API Gateway for Absolute Beginners (2026) | Create Your First REST API
🚀 Want to learn AWS API Gateway from scratch?
In this beginner-friendly AWS API Gateway tutorial, you'll learn how to create your first REST API step-by-step using Amazon API Gateway.
By the end of this video, you'll know:
✅ What AWS API Gateway is
✅ Why API Gateway is used in serverless applications
✅ REST API fundamentals explained
✅ Create your first REST API
✅ Configure API resources and methods
✅ Deploy your API
✅ Test your API endpoints
✅ Real-world API Gateway use cases
AWS API Gateway is one of the most important services for building scalable APIs and serverless applications on AWS. It's widely used with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and other AWS services.
🎯 Who is this video for?
• AWS Beginners
• Cloud Engineers
• Backend Developers
• Full Stack Developers
• DevOps Engineers
• AWS Certification Aspirants
⏱️ Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:45 What is AWS API Gateway?
01:17 APIs Type API Gateway Supports (Rest APIs, HTTP APIS, WebSocket APIs)
01:49 API Gateway Benefits / Features (Easy API Develop, Scaling, Monitoring, Uses Plans, Auth, More)
02:12 Create Rest API
04:00 Create Your First REST API (Configure Methods, Resources & Deploy Stage)
04:39 Create Rest API Lambda Function
06:48 Test Rest API
07:05 Update Lambda Function Code & Deploy
08:30 API Gateway Other Features (Resources, Methods, Stage, Authentication, Uses Plans, API Keyes, More)
10:06 What Next in AWS with Jaymit
📚 AWS for Absolute Beginners Series:
▶ AWS Account Setup
▶ AWS IAM
▶ AWS EC2
▶ AWS S3
▶ AWS Lambda
▶ AWS API Gateway
▶ AWS DynamoDB
▶ AWS CloudWatch
▶ AWS VPC
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