text: •**API Endpoint**: The hostname for the API. Unless you designate a custom domain name, all APIs 
  
  created using API Gateway will have this structure. 
  
  •**Stage Name:**An API deployment. You can deploy diﬀerent snapshots of your API to various 
  
  stages, for example: “v2", "latest", "dev", "qa". 
  
  •**Resource**: The piece of your business logic provided by the request. 