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Amazon Location Service launches an interactive API Playground featuring Places, Routes and Maps APIs

Amazon Location Service now provides a complete, interactive API Playground that lets developers explore and test all 14 Places, Routes, and Maps APIs visually without writing code.

Amazon Location Service provides a full interactive API playground, allowing developers to visually explore and test APIs without writing code. This release makes 14 Places, Maps, and Routes APIs available interactively, enabling real API calls, parameter adjustments, result display on maps, and ready-to-use request snippets for applications. The playground covers search and geocoding, route planning and optimization, and mapping. It is available in 14 AWS regions, and users can start by accessing the API playground in the AWS console or checking the developer guide for details.

Why it matters

Amazon Location Service is an AWS service that provides location-based search, routing, and mapping capabilities. This update allows developers to visually test APIs without writing code, improving development efficiency.

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