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name: Db2onCloud-rest_api
title: REST API
description: 'IBM® Db2® as a Service provides two REST APIs that you can use to interact with your instance:'
last-updated: 2020-11-25
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# REST API
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IBM® Db2® as a Service provides two REST APIs that you can use to interact with your instance:
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- To access data, view and create database objects, administer, and monitor your IBM Db2 SaaS service, use the following APIs:
  - [Database management API (Legacy)](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/db2-on-cloud){: external}.
  - [Database management API (Standard and Enterprise)](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/db2-on-cloud/db2-on-cloud-v4){: external}.
- To scale the storage and compute for your IBM Db2 SaaS instance, use the [Database resource scaling API](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/db2-on-cloud/db2oc_scale_exp){: external}.