Phase 3: Fine-Tuning | Implement Request Throttling in API Gateway

evereven_AWS_APIGW_update-stage.sh

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# Get API GW IDs and stage names
aws apigateway get-rest-apis --query 'items[*].[id,name]' --output json
> [
>    [
>        "abc123xyz",
>        "my-api"
>    ]
> ]

aws apigateway get-stages --rest-api-id <API-ID> --query 'item[*].[stageName]' --output json
> [
>    ["prod"],
>    ["dev"],
>    ["test"]
> ]

# Apply throttling (replace [API-ID] & [STAGE])
aws apigateway update-stage \
  --rest-api-id [API-ID] \
  --stage-name [STAGE] \
  --patch-operations \
    op='replace',path='/throttling/rateLimit',value='50' \
    op='replace',path='/throttling/burstLimit',value='100'