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Cloud-Native API Management with Kong, Tyk & AWS API Gateway

Master the tools and strategies of cloud-native API management using Kong, Tyk, and AWS API Gateway to build, secure, and scale APIs across hybrid
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Cloud-Native API Management with Kong, Tyk & AWS API Gateway is a comprehensive online program designed for backend developers, DevOps professionals, architects, and platform engineers aiming to master the design, deployment, and governance of APIs in modern cloud environments. This course offers both foundational knowledge and advanced practices in managing APIs across distributed systems, ensuring scalability, security, observability, and developer experience.
 
What is Cloud-Native API Management with Kong, Tyk & AWS API Gateway?
 
Cloud-native API management is the process of exposing, securing, monitoring, and scaling APIs using distributed, container-friendly, and scalable gateways and platforms. Unlike traditional API gateways, tools like Kong, Tyk, and AWS API Gateway are built to thrive in Kubernetes-based microservices ecosystems, offering dynamic service discovery, traffic control, rate limiting, authentication, observability, and automation through declarative configurations and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Kong is an open-source, scalable API gateway and microservices management layer.
  • Tyk is a lightweight, highly-performant API gateway and analytics platform.
  • AWS API Gateway provides fully managed API proxying with serverless capabilities integrated tightly with AWS Lambda, IAM, and CloudWatch.
Together, these tools enable you to architect production-grade, resilient API layers.
 
How to Use This Course
 
To make the most of this course, follow a structured, hands-on approach:
  1. Start with the Basics: Begin with an introduction to API Gateway principles, RESTful design, and cloud-native architecture.
  2. Practice Hands-on Labs: Build and deploy APIs using Kong, Tyk, and AWS API Gateway step-by-step using Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS CloudFormation.
  3. Explore Key Use Cases: Apply what you learn to real-world scenarios like API versioning, rate limiting, OAuth2 integration, and observability with Prometheus/Grafana.
  4. Use Each Tool in Context: Learn when to use Kong for hybrid workloads, Tyk for lightweight edge deployments, and AWS API Gateway for fully managed serverless environments.
  5. Deploy in Stages: Practice deploying gateways locally, in Kubernetes, and in cloud environments.
  6. Document & Share: Use Swagger/OpenAPI specs and auto-documentation plugins to expose APIs to other developers.
  7. Secure Your APIs: Learn JWT, API keys, mutual TLS, and integration with identity providers (e.g., Auth0, AWS Cognito).
  8. Integrate Observability: Configure logging, monitoring, alerting, and tracing.
  9. Advance to Mesh & Service Discovery: Learn how API Gateways interact with service meshes like Istio and Consul.
  10. Prepare for Real-World Workloads: The final capstone will combine all knowledge into a simulated production-grade deployment pipeline.
This course is ideal for DevOps engineers, backend developers, API architects, cloud engineers, and technical leads looking to modernize API infrastructure for scale and performance.

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Course Objectives Back to Top
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
 
  1. Understand the architecture of cloud-native API management systems.
  2. Deploy and configure Kong, Tyk, and AWS API Gateway for different environments.
  3. Design, version, and document RESTful and HTTP APIs.
  4. Implement security policies including authentication, authorization, and traffic control.
  5. Integrate CI/CD pipelines for automated API provisioning and deployment.
  6. Monitor API usage and performance using built-in dashboards and external tools.
  7. Apply rate limiting, caching, and load balancing to optimize API delivery.
  8. Secure APIs using OAuth2, JWT, API keys, and IP whitelisting.
  9. Leverage Kubernetes-native features to deploy API gateways as part of a microservices stack.
  10. Troubleshoot and debug APIs using traffic inspection, logging, and tracing tools.
Course Syllabus Back to Top
Course Syllabus
 
Module 1: Introduction to Cloud-Native API Management
  • What is API Management?
  • Evolution of API Gateways
  • API Management vs API Gateway
  • Overview of Kong, Tyk, AWS API Gateway
Module 2: Fundamentals of RESTful API Design
  • REST vs RPC
  • OpenAPI Specification
  • HTTP Methods and Status Codes
  • Versioning and Resource Naming
Module 3: Kong API Gateway Essentials
  • Installing Kong Gateway (Docker & Kubernetes)
  • Configuring Services, Routes, and Plugins
  • Securing APIs with JWT, Basic Auth
  • Rate Limiting, Logging, and Monitoring
  • Kong Manager and Kong Dev Portal
Module 4: Tyk API Gateway Essentials
  • Installing Tyk Open Source Gateway
  • Creating APIs and Policies
  • User and Key Management
  • Using Tyk Dashboard and Analytics
  • Hybrid and On-Prem Deployments
Module 5: AWS API Gateway Deep Dive
  • Creating REST and HTTP APIs in AWS Console
  • Lambda Integration and Proxying
  • Custom Domain Mapping
  • Caching, Throttling, and Logging
  • Security with IAM and Cognito
Module 6: Authentication & Authorization
  • OAuth2 Flows
  • API Keys and Scopes
  • Role-based Access Control
  • Integration with Auth0 and Okta
Module 7: Observability and Analytics
  • Logging with ELK and Fluentd
  • Metrics with Prometheus and Grafana
  • Distributed Tracing with Jaeger and Zipkin
Module 8: DevOps and CI/CD for APIs
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform
  • Declarative API Definitions
  • Automating Kong & Tyk Deployments
  • CI/CD Pipelines using GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline
Module 9: Advanced Use Cases
  • Webhooks & Event-Driven APIs
  • GraphQL Proxying
  • Multi-tenancy with Gateways
  • Canary Releases and Blue-Green Deployment
Module 10: Final Capstone Project
 
  • Build and Deploy a Production-Ready API Stack
  • Combine Kong, Tyk, and AWS API Gateway for Hybrid Deployment
  • Secure, Monitor, and Document APIs
Certification Back to Top

Upon completion, learners will be awarded a professional Certificate of Completion from Uplatz, validating their expertise in cloud-native API management using Kong, Tyk, and AWS API Gateway. This certification demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of deploying, securing, and scaling APIs in distributed cloud environments. It proves the learner's capability to handle production-grade workloads, automate API provisioning with CI/CD, and integrate observability tools. Employers will recognize the certified individual as proficient in modern API architecture, platform engineering, and DevOps practices. The certification is especially valuable for roles in cloud-native platform teams, API governance, and microservices development.

Career & Jobs Back to Top
API Management is at the heart of digital transformation and cloud-native architecture. With enterprises adopting microservices, multi-cloud platforms, and zero-trust security, skilled professionals who understand API gateways like Kong, Tyk, and AWS API Gateway are in high demand.
 
After completing this course, you’ll be well-positioned for roles such as:
  • API Platform Engineer
  • DevOps Engineer
  • Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
  • Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
  • Backend Developer
  • Integration Engineer
  • Cloud Architect
These roles span across industries like fintech, SaaS, e-commerce, healthcare, and telecommunications. Companies seek professionals who can deploy APIs at scale, enforce access control, ensure observability, and provide a seamless developer experience. Freelance opportunities and consulting roles are also growing in this niche. Whether you're modernizing legacy APIs or launching serverless services, this course provides the expertise to lead API transformation efforts confidently.
Interview Questions Back to Top
1. What is an API Gateway and why is it important?
An API Gateway is a server that acts as an entry point for APIs, handling requests, authentication, rate limiting, routing, and monitoring. It simplifies API management and improves security and scalability.
 
2. How does Kong differ from traditional API gateways?
Kong is lightweight, open-source, and built for microservices and containerized environments. It supports plugins, integrates with Kubernetes, and offers high performance.
 
3. What is Tyk and how is it used?
Tyk is an open-source API gateway that provides traffic control, analytics, and developer portals. It’s known for its ease of setup and flexibility across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments.
 
4. When should you use AWS API Gateway?
Use AWS API Gateway when building serverless architectures or tightly integrated AWS-based APIs. It supports REST and WebSocket APIs and works seamlessly with AWS Lambda.
 
5. How does OAuth2 work in an API gateway context?
OAuth2 allows secure delegated access. The gateway can verify tokens issued by identity providers (like Auth0 or Cognito) to ensure secure access to protected resources.
 
6. What is rate limiting and why is it used?
Rate limiting restricts the number of requests a user can make in a given time. It prevents abuse, ensures fair usage, and maintains service stability.
 
7. How do Kong and Tyk support observability?
Both provide integration with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, and other monitoring tools. They support request logging, metrics export, and tracing.
 
8. What is service discovery and how does Kong use it?
Service discovery allows gateways to dynamically detect backend services. Kong integrates with DNS, Consul, and Kubernetes for automatic route updates.
 
9. What are plugins in Kong and how are they used?
Plugins extend Kong’s functionality for authentication, caching, logging, etc. They can be enabled per service or globally and are configured via the Admin API or declaratively.
 
10. How can you manage APIs declaratively?
Using configuration files in YAML/JSON, tools like decK (for Kong) or Terraform, you can define APIs, routes, and plugins, and version-control the API infrastructure for CI/CD.
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