For many enterprise customers, AWS Direct Connect or a virtual private network (VPN) is often used to build a network connection between an on-premises network and an Amazon Web Services (AWS) virtual private cloud (VPC). This can add additional complexity to a network design, and introduces challenges to Amazon API Gateway private API and private integration setup. This whitepaper introduces best practices for deploying private APIs and private integrations in API Gateway, and discusses security, usability, and architecture.
It is aimed at developers who use API Gateway, or are considering using it in the future.