Setting up a pass-through proxy

Step one on our journey will be to work through the steps of setting up a new API in API Gateway that will pass requests and responses to and from JsonPlaceholder.

First, in the AWS console, create a new API, shown as follows. I'll call this one JsonProxy:

Once we have our API, we can start filling it in and adding endpoints and behavior. In my experience, most AWS services have essential concepts that one should understand well before building something of significance. API Gateway is no different in this regard. The good news is that it's not incredibly difficult to understand these concepts in API Gateway. ...

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