Secure HTTPS access points

AWS provides API endpoints as a mechanism to securely communicate with their services; for example, https://dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com is an API endpoint for AWS DynamoDB (AWS NoSQL service) for us-east-1 (Northern Virginia) region. These API endpoints are URLs that are entry points for an AWS web service. API endpoints are secure customer access points to employ secure HTTPS communication sessions for enabling better security while communicating with AWS services. HTTPS uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) / Transport Layer Security (TLS) cryptographic protocol that helps prevent forgery, tampering and eavesdropping. The identity of communication parties is authenticated using public key cryptography.