# Publish a portal in API Gateway
Publish a portal

For API consumers to access your portal, you must publish it. A portal URL can be discovered by anyone on the internet. We recommend that you preview and secure your portal before publishing it.

## Considerations


It might take API Gateway a few minutes to publish your portal. You can monitor the **Publish status** in the console.

## Publish a portal


The following procedure shows how to publish a portal.

**To publish a portal**

1. Sign in to the API Gateway console at [https://console.amazonaws.cn/apigateway](https://console.amazonaws.cn/apigateway).

1. In the main navigation pane, choose **Portals**.

1. Choose a portal.

1. Choose **Publish portal**.

1. (Optional) For **Description of changes**, enter a description of your change.

   When you publish a portal, we recommend that you always provide a brief description of your changes.

1. Choose **Publish**.

   It takes API Gateway a few minutes to finish publishing your portal. API Gateway provides a link to your portal when it's available.

To delete your portal, you must disable it first. For more information, see [Disable a portal in API Gateway](apigateway-portals-disable-portal.md).