Manage AWS and third-party cloud infrastructure with AWS Cloud Control API
Business in this digital era does not consist of single standard business logic but of manifolds. Businesses now communicate with several vendor APIs to offer the best service to their customers. If one API connects to the sales management platform, another may connect to a navigation app or a translator. If you see any medium to enterprise-level organizations which use tech as one of their core services, they connect to at least a dozen APIs. Modern-day developers in these organizations spend a lot of time integrating and managing the cloud infrastructure. As applications become more sophisticated, developers need to connect to several third-party applications or services through APIs. Empowering developers with a standardized API gives them the ability to integrate and manage all APIs across the cloud infrastructure efficiently.
Amazon Web Services has developed AWS Cloud Control API which gives developers the platform to smoothly manage the cloud infrastructure and adapt to new technologies faster. AWS Cloud Control API is built with a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that enables developers to manage the lifecycle of AWS and third-party services. The Cloud Control API gives five operations for developers to create, read, update, delete and list (CRUDL) cloud infrastructure. Developers now can leverage these five consistent APIs instead of using specific APIs for each. AWS solution partners are going to benefit hugely from this, without having to spend weeks on custom development. AWS Cloud Control API also provides partners the ability to access new features and services on the day of launch itself.
Here is how the AWS Cloud Control Works
Here are the benefits of using AWS Cloud Control API:
- Control tons of AWS resources as well as third-party resources with standardized APIs
- Once partners have integrated their solution with the Cloud control API, they get access to all new AWS services and features automatically.
- Developers can run AWS resources with partner infrastructure tools such as Pulumi and HashiCorp Terraform.
Here are some of the practical use cases of AWS Cloud Control API in organizations.
Staying compliant with governance and security
Every third-party application has its own set of policies and compliances that one needs to adhere to, during implementation which makes it difficult for developers. This increases when the deployment models vary within the same vendor. The Cloud Control API can help mitigate these issues.
Transparency
Having multiple APIs working in silos creates a huge gap in understanding the consumption of APIs and in discovering the access given to APIs. There is no visibility to see who is consuming what. Cloud Control API can give visibility into this.
Commercial Benefits
Decentralized infrastructure creates delay due to dependencies, hinders reusability, and leads to duplication. Having a centralized API is always beneficial to any business or team. It has several other technical implications along with economic ones. The focus should be always on delivering more value to the organization or to its team. For this reason, it is vital that any business centralizes its cloud infrastructure as much as possible by using tools such as AWS Cloud Control API.
Debugging
It is cumbersome to trace multiple API integrations and monitor their consumption, and over a period of time, the addition of APIs makes it more challenging. Without a central cloud API, tracing the root cause and solving the issue may not be easy.
All organizations and partners irrespective of their size and functions can benefit from using Cloud Control API. Through this blog, we hope you got an overview of AWS Cloud Control API and its benefits to consider taking the next step. Below are the links to other detailed topics for your reference.
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