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title: Deploying an API service
description: Deploy an API service after you make configuration changes, such as updating a setting, adding an operation, or updating attributes or custom policies.
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page_id: pingone:authorization_using_pingone_authorize:p1az_deploying_api_services
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingone/authorization_using_pingone_authorize/p1az_deploying_api_services.html
revdate: November 11, 2023
section_ids:
  about-this-task: About this task
  steps: Steps
---

# Deploying an API service

Deploy an API service after you make configuration changes, such as updating a setting, adding an operation, or updating attributes or custom policies.

## About this task

Each API service has a system-owned decision endpoint that provides an environment for deploying the API service and its authorization policies. The decision endpoint is created when you deploy the API service for the first time, and it has the same name as the API service.

Deploying the API service also deploys the latest version of the **API Access Management** policy tree. This publishes basic and custom policies that target the API service and any operations.

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| - | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|   | Do not use **Version History** to publish policies that target API services and operations. Instead, deploy the API service. |

## Steps

1. Go to **Authorization > API Services** and select the API service that you want to deploy.

   If the API service has already been deployed, a time stamp at the bottom of the page provides information about the last successful deployment.

2. Click **Deploy**.