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# Yandex Cloud API concepts

This document describes the underlying concepts of the Yandex Cloud API architecture. The document will be of value for developers who want to use the Yandex Cloud API to build automation systems, plugins, and other apps.

# Yandex Cloud API concepts

 - [Basic principles](concepts/general.md)

## Resources

 - [Resource identification](concepts/resources-identification.md)

 - [Standard fields](concepts/standard-fields.md)

## API methods

 - [Overview](concepts/about-methods.md)

 - [API endpoints](concepts/endpoints.md)

 - [Standard methods](concepts/standard-methods.md)

 - [Additional methods](concepts/custom-methods.md)

 - [Pagination](concepts/pagination.md)

 - [Handling errors](concepts/errors.md)

## Working with operations

 - [Overview](concepts/about-async.md)

 - [Asynchronous operations](concepts/async.md)

 - [Operation object](concepts/operation.md)

 - [Idempotency](concepts/idempotency.md)