AWS API Gateway fails while invoking backend API using private ip address

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I have created public API using AWS api gateway with the resource cars and a GET method. I also have backend API,/api/routing, that is hosted on EC2 windows instance. The backend API only accepts POST request and used for routing the request based on some header values.

In integration request i also have Mapping Template setup so it can POST data to api/routing

So the integration request for cars public API looks like below

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The Inbound rules for EC2 instance

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Issue
The Endpoint URL is using private ip of EC2 instance. When i Test cars api i get error

Execution failed due to configuration error: Invalid endpoint address

If i change the Endpoint Url to use public ip address then its working as expected

Eventually, i would like to access backend API using private-ip. The EC2 instance is a free instance that AWS created.

I understand that if i have VPC then in API Gateway i need to setup VPC Links, but I have not created any VPC.(unless aws by default creates one).

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AWS has created default VPC for you. You will need to use VPC links for integration with private subnets. – Imran
i tried creating NLB as per the article and configured VPC Link. Only difference is i created internal NLB instead of public. Because I think, the client for EC2 instance is API Gateway. However that did not work – LP13

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found it. After creating VPC link I was still selecting Integration Type as HTTP..it should be VPC Link