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APIGateway

Setting up an API Gateway with Kenesis

Creating an API Gateway with Kenesis

Creation Date: November 29, 2023

Created By: Yeison Giraldo

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1. Log in to console and search for IAM

You will need to create a role to give permissions to the API to talk to Kinesis

2. Click on Roles

Once you are in IAM console click on Roles

3. Click on Create role

4. Click on AWS Service

In Use Case select API Gateway

5. Click on Next

6. Click on Next

Leave default settings

7. For Role name Type "tutorial-api-gateway"

8. Click on Create role

9. Now we are going to attached a Policy to that role

Click on tutorial-api-gateway

10. Click on Add permissions

11. Click on Attach policies

12. Look for AmazonKinesisAnalyticsFull Access

Click on the box and then Add permissions

13. Now look for Kinesis

We need to create a kinesis data stream

14. Click on Create data stream

15. Give it a name "event-pipe"

Select Provisioned leave everything else default

16. Click on Create data stream

17. Click on event-pipe…

18. Now we are going to create API Gateway

19. Click on Build under REST API

20. Give it a Name "Event-Pipe"

21. Click on Create API

22. Now that we have the API ready

We need to create a resouce

23. Give it a name to the resource name "stream"

24. Click on Create resource

25. Click on API actions

26. Click on Create method

27. Method Type Get

Select AWS Service

28. Select Region

Aws Service Kinesis

HTTP Method 🏣

# API Gateway - Create method

29. Look for the role that was previous Created

Go to IAM console

30. Click on Roles

31. Click on tutorial-api-gateway

32. Click on Copy ARN to clipboard

33. Click on Execution role

and paste the ARN URL

34. Click on Create method

35. Click on Integration request

36. Click on Edit

37. Click on API Gateway

38. Click on Event-Pipe

39. Click on GET

40. Click on Deploy API Gateway

# This are the basic steps to configure an API Gateway with Kinesis

You will need to continue configuring the API Gateway with your code to do data transformation and more.

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