# Asynchronous endpoint operations
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This guide demonstrates the prerequisites you must satisfy to create an asynchronous endpoint, along with how to create, invoke, and delete your asynchronous endpoints. You can create, update, delete, and invoke asynchronous endpoints with the AWS SDKs and the [Amazon SageMaker Python SDK](https://sagemaker.readthedocs.io/en/stable/overview.html#sagemaker-asynchronous-inference).

**Topics**
+ [Complete the prerequisites](async-inference-create-endpoint-prerequisites.md)
+ [How to create an Asynchronous Inference Endpoint](async-inference-create-endpoint.md)
+ [Invoke an Asynchronous Endpoint](async-inference-invoke-endpoint.md)
+ [Update an Asynchronous Endpoint](async-inference-update-endpoint.md)
+ [Delete an Asynchronous Endpoint](async-inference-delete-endpoint.md)