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  Concept: Workday Cloud Platform API Gateway
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## <a id="section_overview"></a>Overview

Workday Cloud Platform (WCP) API Gateway is the entry point for Workday APIs that are used by Workday Extend and Workday Orchestrate for Integration customers. WCP API Gateway serves Workday API traffic for Extend and Integration Apps. Its core functionalities include API routing, authentication, logging, and traffic management.

WCP API Gateway provides these benefits:

-   Easier code maintenance.

    WCP API Gateway uses standardized, tenant agnostic client URLs without customer region-specific info, simplifying app building experience for Extend and Integrations customers.

-   App stability.

    WCP API Gateway provides guardrails that manage customer traffic effectively enabling smooth operation of Extend and Integration Apps in production environments.

-   Security.

    WCP API Gateway enforces industry-standard authentication schemes to validate customer traffic to help secure all traffic within Workday Private Network boundaries.



## <a id="section_apiClientTimeout"></a>Workday API Client Timeout

All synchronous Workday API calls from Extend and Integration Apps go through WCP API Gateway. A client timeout occurs when the total request and response time of an API call exceeds the limit. In general, synchronous Workday API calls that go through WCP API Gateway can’t exceed 5 minutes, except for Graph API.

This table lists the client timeout limit for each type of Workday API:

<table><thead><tr><th>API Type</th><th>Client Timeout (in minutes)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Graph API</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>REST API</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>SOAP API</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>RaaS API</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>WQL (Extend & Integration Apps)</td><td>5</td></tr></tbody></table><br/>

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To see the limits for asynchronous API calls with orchestrations, see [Reference: Orchestration Runtime Limits](/wcp_docs/GUID-b341f6f0-cd6f-4930-8bcb-723a03f64805.html) .