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Reference Documentation
==================

* [APISIX Readme](../README.md)
* [Architecture Design](architecture-design.md)
* [Benchmark](benchmark.md)
* [Getting Started Guide](getting-started.md)
* [How to build Apache APISIX](how-to-build.md)
* [Health Check](health-check.md): Enable health check on the upstream node, and will automatically filter unhealthy nodes during load balancing to ensure system stability.
* Router
    * [radixtree](router-radixtree.md)
* [Stand Alone Model](stand-alone.md): Supports to load route rules from local yaml file, it is more friendly such as under the kubernetes(k8s).
* [Stream Proxy](stream-proxy.md)
* [Admin API](admin-api.md)
* [Changelog](../CHANGELOG.md)
* [Code Style](../CODE_STYLE.md)
* [FAQ](../FAQ.md)

Plugins
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* [hot reload](plugins.md): Hot reload without reload service.
* [key-auth](plugins/key-auth.md): User authentication based on Key Authentication.
* [JWT-auth](plugins/jwt-auth.md): User authentication based on [JWT](https://jwt.io/) (JSON Web Tokens) Authentication.
* [HTTPS/TLS](https.md): Dynamic load the SSL Certificate by Server Name Indication (SNI).
* [limit-count](plugins/limit-count.md): Rate limiting based on a "fixed window" implementation.
* [limit-req](plugins/limit-req.md): Request rate limiting and adjustment based on the "leaky bucket" method.
* [limit-conn](plugins/limit-conn.md): Limite request concurrency (or concurrent connections).
* [proxy-rewrite](plugins/proxy-rewrite.md): Rewrite upstream request information.
* [prometheus](plugins/prometheus.md): Expose metrics related to APISIX and proxied upstream services in Prometheus exposition format, which can be scraped by a Prometheus Server.
* [OpenTracing](plugins/zipkin.md): Supports Zikpin and Apache SkyWalking.
* [grpc-transcode](plugins/grpc-transcoding.md): REST <--> gRPC transcoding.
* [serverless](plugins/serverless.md)：Allows to dynamically run Lua code at *different* phase in APISIX.
* [ip-restriction](plugins/ip-restriction.md): IP whitelist/blacklist.
* openid-connect
* [redirect](plugins/redirect.md): URI redirect.
* [response-rewrite](plugins/response-rewrite.md): Set customized response status code, body and header to the client.


Deploy to the Cloud
=======
### AWS

The recommended approach is to deploy APISIX with [AWS CDK](https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/) on [AWS Fargate](https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/) which helps you decouple the APISIX layer and the upstream layer on top of a fully-managed and secure serverless container compute environment with autoscaling capabilities.

See [this guide](https://github.com/pahud/cdk-samples/blob/master/typescript/apisix/README.md) by [Pahud Hsieh](https://github.com/pahud) and learn how to provision the recommended architecture 100% in AWS CDK.