What is Postman? How to set it up?

[VirajBagal]

In the 8th week blog post, you mentioned to do this:

Now that the API Gateway is integrated, let's call it. Go to Postman and create a POST method with the Invoke URL and body containing sentence parameter.

Can you please elaborate about it in the blog post? I don't know what is Postman. It is a tab present in the Lambda function or API gateway or is it a separate AWS service?

Thanks.

[ravirajag]

Hi @VirajBagal, Postman is a tool that you can use to call APIs and check the responses. People use it to test APIs, configure environment specific APIs, manage APIs etc. You can get the app from here: https://www.postman.com/downloads/