# Amazon API Gateway WebSocket API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/aws-api-gateway/websocket-api/  
**Provider:** Amazon API Gateway — https://apis.io/providers/aws-api-gateway/  
**Base URL:** https://apigateway.{region}.amazonaws.com  
**Documentation:** https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/

Amazon API Gateway WebSocket API is one of 26 APIs that [Amazon API Gateway](https://apis.io/providers/aws-api-gateway/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by an AsyncAPI event-driven specification. Tagged areas include Bidirectional, Real-Time, and WebSocket. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a getting-started guide, an AsyncAPI specification, and a JSON-LD context.

Build real-time two-way communication applications with WebSocket APIs.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/apigateway-websocket-api.html
- **Getting Started** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/apigateway-websocket-api-overview.html
- **AsyncAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aws-api-gateway/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/amazon-api-gateway-websocket-asyncapi.yml
- **JSON-LD** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aws-api-gateway/refs/heads/main/json-ld/amazon-api-gateway-context.jsonld

## Other Amazon API Gateway APIs (12)

- [Amazon API Gateway Portals](https://apis.io/apis/aws-api-gateway/aws-api-gateway-portals/)
- [Amazon API Gateway ApiKeys API](https://apis.io/apis/aws-api-gateway/aws-api-gateway-apikeys-api/)
- [Amazon API Gateway Apis API](https://apis.io/apis/aws-api-gateway/aws-api-gateway-apis-api/)
- [Amazon API Gateway Authorizers API](https://apis.io/apis/aws-api-gateway/aws-api-gateway-authorizers-api/)
- [Amazon API Gateway Connections API](https://apis.io/apis/aws-api-gateway/aws-api-gateway-connections-api/)
- [Amazon API Gateway Deployments API](https://apis.io/apis/aws-api-gateway/aws-api-gateway-deployments-api/)
- [Amazon API Gateway Integrations API](https://apis.io/apis/aws-api-gateway/aws-api-gateway-integrations-api/)
- [Amazon API Gateway Methods API](https://apis.io/apis/aws-api-gateway/aws-api-gateway-methods-api/)
- [Amazon API Gateway Resources API](https://apis.io/apis/aws-api-gateway/aws-api-gateway-resources-api/)
- [Amazon API Gateway RestApis API](https://apis.io/apis/aws-api-gateway/aws-api-gateway-restapis-api/)
- [Amazon API Gateway Routes API](https://apis.io/apis/aws-api-gateway/aws-api-gateway-routes-api/)
- [Amazon API Gateway Stages API](https://apis.io/apis/aws-api-gateway/aws-api-gateway-stages-api/)

## Tags

Bidirectional, Real-Time, WebSocket

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/aws-api-gateway/websocket-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/aws-api-gateway/.