An SAP system exposes OData services that external systems must call through a managed endpoint with throttling, authentication, and usage controls. Which service should front those services?
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Answer: D
API Gateway is a managed HTTP API front end. It can proxy to OData endpoints on SAP application servers and add authentication, request throttling, usage plans, caching, and transformations. That keeps SAP from being called directly by every consumer and gives the team a controlled contract. Direct Connect is a private network link, SQS is a queue, and CloudFormation is infrastructure as code.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Direct Connect provides private connectivity but no API management, throttling, or authentication layer.
- B. SQS stores messages for asynchronous consumers and does not expose or manage an HTTP OData endpoint.
- C. CloudFormation deploys resources and does not run or protect an API.
Exam tip. The managed front door for OData is API Gateway.