Service Integrations

We integrate services with API Gateway to invoke them in response to requests. This lesson is a deep dive into the service integration with API Gateway. While integrating services with the API gateway, we can adopt two approaches. Either integrate a service through the Lambda function or integrate the service directly. For example, consider a serverless CRUD application that routes user requests through the API Gateway to the Lambda functions, which perform CRUD operations on a DynamoDB table.

Another way is directly integrating the DynamoDB table with the API Gateway and eliminating the middleman, the Lambda function. This approach, though significantly reduces cost and latency, raises a question: How will ...