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## Deploy Your API
From the Amazon API Gateway console, choose Actions, Deploy API. You'll be prompted to create a new stage. You can use prod for the stage name.

1. In the **Actions** drop-down list select **Deploy API**.
2. Select **[New Stage]** in the **Deployment stage** drop-down list.
3. Enter `prod` for the **Stage Name**.
4. Choose **Deploy**.
5. Record the **Invoke URL**. You will use it in the next section.

 ![Invoke URL](/images/API-invokeURL.png)