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Endpoints is an API management system that helps you secure, monitor, analyze, and set quotas on your APIs using the same infrastructure Google uses for its own APIs.
The Endpoints options
To have your API managed by Cloud Endpoints, you have three options, depending on where your API is hosted and the type of communications protocol your API uses:
See Endpoints features in action by doing the Quickstart for Endpoints, which uses scripts to deploy a sample API to the App Engine flexible environment.
Get familiar with the deployments steps by doing one of the tutorials for the Endpoints option that you have chosen:
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