# Scaleway Backends API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/scaleway/scaleway-backends-api/  
**Provider:** Scaleway — https://apis.io/providers/scaleway/  
**Documentation:** https://www.scaleway.com/en/developers/api/instances/

Scaleway Backends API is one of 74 APIs that [Scaleway](https://apis.io/providers/scaleway/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Backend. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

The Load Balancer backend object. It represents a set of backend servers that the frontend forwards requests to using the specified configuration (port, protocol, proxy protocol etc). You can create multiple backends for each of your Load Balancers. Use the backends endpoint to create backends, list, manage and update them and their healthchecks / backend servers, and delete them as required

## Machine-readable artifacts (11)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scaleway/refs/heads/main/openapi/scaleway-backends-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://www.scaleway.com/en/developers/api/instances/
- **Documentation** — https://www.scaleway.com/en/developers/api/kubernetes/
- **Documentation** — https://www.scaleway.com/en/developers/api/iam/
- **Documentation** — https://www.scaleway.com/en/developers/api/load-balancer/zoned-api/
- **Documentation** — https://www.scaleway.com/en/developers/api/managed-databases-for-postgresql-and-mysql/
- **Documentation** — https://www.scaleway.com/en/developers/api/vpc/
- **Documentation** — https://www.scaleway.com/en/developers/api/serverless-containers/
- **Documentation** — https://www.scaleway.com/en/developers/api/serverless-functions/
- **Documentation** — https://www.scaleway.com/en/developers/api/secret-manager/
- **Documentation** — https://www.scaleway.com/en/developers/api/transactional-email/

## Other Scaleway APIs (12)

- [Scaleway Generative APIs](https://apis.io/apis/scaleway/scaleway-generative-apis/)
- [Scaleway Access Control List API](https://apis.io/apis/scaleway/scaleway-access-control-list-api/)
- [Scaleway ACLs API](https://apis.io/apis/scaleway/scaleway-acls-api/)
- [Scaleway Alert Subscribers API](https://apis.io/apis/scaleway/scaleway-alert-subscribers-api/)
- [Scaleway API Keys API](https://apis.io/apis/scaleway/scaleway-api-keys-api/)
- [Scaleway Applications API](https://apis.io/apis/scaleway/scaleway-applications-api/)
- [Scaleway Backups API](https://apis.io/apis/scaleway/scaleway-backups-api/)
- [Scaleway Blocklist API](https://apis.io/apis/scaleway/scaleway-blocklist-api/)
- [Scaleway Certificate API](https://apis.io/apis/scaleway/scaleway-certificate-api/)
- [Scaleway Cluster types API](https://apis.io/apis/scaleway/scaleway-cluster-types-api/)
- [Scaleway Clusters API](https://apis.io/apis/scaleway/scaleway-clusters-api/)
- [Scaleway Containers API](https://apis.io/apis/scaleway/scaleway-containers-api/)

## Tags

Backend

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