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Amazon API Gateway in Amazon Web Services in China - Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China
Region availabilityHow API Gateway differsDocumentation
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Amazon API Gateway in Amazon Web Services in China

Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. With a few clicks in the Amazon Web Services Management Console, you can create an API that acts as a "front door" for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your back-end services, such as workloads running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), code running on Amazon Lambda, or any web application.

Amazon API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management. Amazon API Gateway has no minimum fees or startup costs. You pay only for the API calls you receive and the amount of data transferred out.

Region availability

Amazon API Gateway is available in the following regions in China:

  • Beijing Region

  • Ningxia Region

How API Gateway differs

The following differences apply to Amazon API Gateway:

  • Portals are not available.

  • To call API Gateway APIs in the Beijing and Ningxia Regions, you must use Beijing Region-specific or Ningxia Region-specific endpoints.

  • Edge-optimized APIs and edge-optimized custom domain names are not available.

  • Filing for Internet Content Provider (ICP) recordal—If you want to service API requests in the Beijing Region that can be accessed without authentication, you must obtain an ICP license. For information about filing for ICP recordal, see . You may also need to refile for ICP whitelisting for API Gateway in the Ningxia Region even if you already filed for it in the Beijing Region.

  • The following API Gateway features are either unavailable in the Beijing and Ningxia Regions or require an ICP license:

    • API Gateway serves unauthenticated API requests only if the API owner’s Amazon Web Services account is associated with a valid ICP license. As a result, creating an API using a Lambda authorizer or no authorizer requires an ICP license.

    • You can configure an API using a custom authorizer or no authorizer, but the API can only be accessed if your Amazon Web Services in China account is associated with an ICP license.

    • All custom domain names require an ICP license.

  • Amazon Cognito authorizers are not available.

  • Java and Ruby SDK generation is not available.

  • HTTP API private integrations with Amazon Cloud Map are not available.

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