Introducing the AWS API

 

The AWS environment acts as an integrated collection of hardware and software services designed to enable the easy, quick, and inexpensive use of computing resources. Now, sitting atop this integrated collection is the AWS application programming interface (API, for short): In essence, an API represents a way to communicate with a computing resource.

 

The AWS API is the sole way that external users interact with AWS resources, and there’s literally no way to use AWS resources without the API being involved. In fact, if you access AWS through the AWS Management Console or the command line tools, you are actually using tools that make calls to the AWS API.