APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.

Also, AWS just yesterday published more guidance, titled " Creating a PowerShell REST API." "With the recent AWS Lambda support for PowerShell, it's now easy to make web APIs with Amazon API Gateway ...

The “ Simple HTTP api for executing PowerShell scripts ” is itself just a PowerShell script. So changing functionality just requires modifying a single file, no compilation needed.