# Converting serverless EDGE Optimized API to Regional API

**URL:** <https://forum.serverless.com/t/converting-serverless-edge-optimized-api-to-regional-api/12278>\
**Category:** Serverless Framework\
**Tags:** aws, api-gateway\
**Created:** [August 13, 2020, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/converting-serverless-edge-optimized-api-to-regional-api/12278 "2020-08-13T17:41:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/converting-serverless-edge-optimized-api-to-regional-api/12278/1 "2020-08-13T17:41:14Z")

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We have been defining our REST API lambdas using serverless.yml configurations but have hit resource limitations because these APIs are EDGE optimized and that has a hard limit of 120 APIs.

We would therefore like to convert the existing APIs to Regional APis which have a 600 API limit.

I wonder if this can be done and how. I see nothing in our serverless.yml files that specifies the API type as EDGE optimized or Regional.

However I just found this which indicates to make it regional with  
endpointType: regional

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