From 1f28150080b18736e7d30b5e6d9e942b29d2cd84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathias Leppich Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:52:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] API Gateway gotcha Multi-Region --- README.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index be43447..0fb2916 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1171,6 +1171,7 @@ API Gateway - 🔸API Gateway only supports encrypted (https) endpoints, and does not support unencrypted HTTP. (This is probably a good thing.) - 🔸API Gateway endpoints are always public, i.e. internet facing, and there is no mechanism to build private endpoints, e.g. for internal use on a [VPC](#vpcs-network-security-and-security-groups) but endpoints and their related resources can, optionally, [require authentication](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/apigateway-control-access-to-api.html). +- API Gateway doesn't support Multi-Region. It is a service that is deployed in a single region but comes with a global endpoint that is served from Amazons Edge Locations (like a CloudFront Distribution). You can not have multiple API Gateways with the same hostname in different AWS Regions. ∙ [AWS Forum](https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=735342򳡮) 🚧 [*Please help expand this incomplete section.*](CONTRIBUTING.md) From 5248c2868c523f14241fbbe988dd9a8839efbad6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathias Leppich Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 00:23:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update README.md Incorporating feedback --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0fb2916..d8c5d4d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1171,7 +1171,7 @@ API Gateway - 🔸API Gateway only supports encrypted (https) endpoints, and does not support unencrypted HTTP. (This is probably a good thing.) - 🔸API Gateway endpoints are always public, i.e. internet facing, and there is no mechanism to build private endpoints, e.g. for internal use on a [VPC](#vpcs-network-security-and-security-groups) but endpoints and their related resources can, optionally, [require authentication](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/apigateway-control-access-to-api.html). -- API Gateway doesn't support Multi-Region. It is a service that is deployed in a single region but comes with a global endpoint that is served from Amazons Edge Locations (like a CloudFront Distribution). You can not have multiple API Gateways with the same hostname in different AWS Regions. ∙ [AWS Forum](https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=735342򳡮) +- API-Gateway doesn't support multi-region deployments for high availability. It is a service that is deployed in a single region but comes with a global endpoint that is served from Amazons edge locations (like a CloudFront Distribution). You can not have multiple API Gateways with the same hostname in different AWS Regions and use Route 53 to distribute the traffic. See this [AWS forum post](https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=735342򳡮) for more information. 🚧 [*Please help expand this incomplete section.*](CONTRIBUTING.md)