# Amazon API Gateway endpoints and quotas
API Gateway

To connect programmatically to an AWS service, you use an endpoint. AWS services offer the following endpoint types in some or all of the AWS Regions that the service supports: IPv4 endpoints, dual-stack endpoints, and FIPS endpoints. Some services provide global endpoints. For more information, see [AWS service endpoints](rande.md).

Service quotas, also referred to as limits, are the maximum number of service resources or operations for your AWS account. For more information, see [AWS service quotas](aws_service_limits.md).

The following are the service endpoints and service quotas for this service.

## Service endpoints


Amazon API Gateway includes the API Gateway Control Plane (for creating and managing APIs) and the API Gateway Data Plane (for calling deployed APIs).

The Route 53 Hosted Zone ID column shows the Route 53 Hosted Zone IDs for API Gateway Regional endpoints. Route 53 Hosted Zone IDs are for use with the `execute-api` (API Gateway component service for API execution) domain. For edge-optimized endpoints, the Route 53 Hosted Zone ID is Z2FDTNDATAQYW2 for all Regions.

### Amazon API Gateway control plane


[\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/apigateway.html)

### Amazon API Gateway data plane


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## Service quotas


[\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/apigateway.html)

For more information, see [Quotas in Amazon API Gateway](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/limits.html) in the *API Gateway Developer Guide*.