API Gateway provides a number of ways to protect your API from certain threats, like malicious users or spikes in traffic. You can protect your API using strategies like generating SSL certificates, configuring a web application firewall, setting throttling targets, and only allowing access to your API from a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). In this section you can learn how to enable these capabilities using API Gateway.
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