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:

- [Cloud Endpoints for OpenAPI](https://docs.cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/openapi.md.txt)
- [Cloud Endpoints for gRPC](https://docs.cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/grpc/about-grpc.md.txt)
- [Cloud Endpoints Frameworks for the App Engine standard environment](https://docs.cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/frameworks/about-cloud-endpoints-frameworks.md.txt)

For help on deciding which option is right for you, see
[Choosing an Endpoints option](https://docs.cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/choose-endpoints-option.md.txt).

## What's next

- See Endpoints features in action by doing the
  [Quickstart for Endpoints](https://docs.cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/deploy-api.md.txt),
  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:

  - [Endpoints for OpenAPI: tutorials](https://docs.cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/openapi/tutorials.md.txt)
  - [Endpoints for gRPC: tutorials](https://docs.cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/grpc/tutorials.md.txt)
  - [Endpoints Frameworks for the App Engine standard environment: tutorials](https://docs.cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/frameworks/tutorials.md.txt)