# Welcome
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Amazon API Gateway helps developers deliver robust, secure, and scalable mobile and web application back ends. API Gateway allows developers to securely connect mobile and web applications to APIs that run on AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, or other publicly addressable web services that are hosted outside of AWS.

This document was last published on September 2, 2026. 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon API Gateway. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query apigateway` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).