NEXT LEVEL LAB — DevOps API Testing (AWS + Auth +...

🎯 Scenario You deployed a backend API (FastAPI / Node / Java — doesn’t matter) on: AWS ECS / EKS / EC2 Behind Load Balancer Example API: http://your-api-alb.amazonaws.com You must: Verify it works Validate authentication Test protected endpoints Catch failures BEFORE deployment 🧠 PART 1 — WHERE API IS LOCATED (REAL WORLD) In real DevOps: 🔹 AWS ECS / ALB http://my-api-123.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com 🔹 Kubernetes (Ingress) http://api.mycompany.com 🔹 API Gateway https://abc123.execute-api.us-east-1