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Amazon API Gateway

Overview

What is Amazon API Gateway?

AWS offers the Amazon API Gateway supports the creation and publication of an API for web applications, as well as its monitoring and maintenance. The Amazon API Gateway is able to support thousands of API calls concurrently and provides traffic…

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Second Best product from Amazon

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 29, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I would say we are satisfied with the services provided by Amazon API Gateway to our project and to our company. We were trying API Gateway on lambdas and it helped our projec...
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Verified user
Consultant
Amazon API Gateway1 year of experience

The API that everyone needs.

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 31, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
In our organization, Amazon API Gateway helps developers to manage, create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs of any and all scales. It helps a lot in streamlining a...
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Amritansu Sahoo
C-Level Executive - Information Technology
Co-Founder
Astrix Study
Amazon API Gateway2 years of experience

API Gateway is Great for Integrating REST and HTTP Access to Other AWS Resources

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 12, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We are using API Gateway (API GW) as an HTTP front end for internal resources including lambda functions and load-balanced web applications. Other teams are using API GW as in...
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Michael Jenkins
Engineer - Corporate
Senior Systems Reliability Engineer
The Walt Disney Company
Amazon API Gateway3 years of experience

API Gateway - Easy to manage or not?

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 9, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use the [Amazon] API Gateway across the enterprise. Today it is our main communication channel, when it comes to APIs, because it is quite robust, and at the same time flex...
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Verified user
Technician
Amazon API Gateway3 years of experience

AWS API Gateway is a solid solution to orchestrate your web services.

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 9, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Our organization uses Amazon API Gateway to orchestrate and consolidate web service APIs across projects. It is a useful multi-purpose tool, and we use it to integrate authent...
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Ramindu Deshapriya
Team Lead - Information Technology
Lead Consultant - Technology
Virtusa
Amazon API Gateway3 years of experience
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Pricing

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Past 300 Million

$0.90

Cloud
Per Million

First 300 Million

$1.00

Cloud
Per Million

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

API Management

API management handles technical things like user permissions, version control,and security, in addition to business items like documentation and pricing

7.7
Avg 8.3
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Product Details

What is Amazon API Gateway?

Amazon API Gateway Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

AWS offers the Amazon API Gateway supports the creation and publication of an API for web applications, as well as its monitoring and maintenance. The Amazon API Gateway is able to support thousands of API calls concurrently and provides traffic management, as well as monitoring and access control.

Reviewers rate API versioning highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of Amazon API Gateway are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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API Gateway - Great web toolkit for publishing APIs

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 05, 2019
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Networking Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon API Gateway
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
At our firm, we provide different services and at different levels to our clients. With using Amazon API Gateway, it became possible for us to expose our services through simple REST endpoints. We have it synced up with different Amazon Lambda functions that handle the bulk of the processing and then exposing them via the API gateway.
Pros
  • Amazon API Gateway has a robust security infrastructure and provides great documentation and online help.
  • Provides an easy way to implement REST API with Serverless architecture as well as account for service versioning.
Cons
  • The initial learning curve with such technologies can be quite daunting. However, there is sufficient documentation available on Amazon AWS services to get one started.
  • Redeployment of the entire stage and step functions is necessary to test out any changes, no matter how minor.
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS services, including the API Gateway, have an excellent reputation in the development community. They have one of the best up-times for any comparable cloud hosting service. The fact that the service scales up as the load requirements increase, and that clients are only charged based on these usage metrics, makes it a winner for us.

Amazon API Gateway is great for your API needs

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
March 07, 2020
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon API Gateway
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our team develops several APIs for multiple end-users to consume. These are both internal and external customers. Our services are behind the Amazon API Gateway. This helps in securing our APIs and also helps curtail misuse of our APIs by bad actors. Thus Amazon API Gateway is helping us a great deal as we put a lot of the administration efforts within the gateway itself instead of our code.
Pros
  • Amazon API Gateway is helping us a great deal as we put a lot of the administration efforts within the gateway itself instead of our code.
  • Very easy to create different environment set ups like dev, test and UAT.
  • Easy to change headers without much work from the developers.
  • Helps in avoiding misuse of our APIs.
Cons
  • The interface is a little complicated to use. It needs some training.
  • If there are any errors with the configurations, it would not allow to save.
Likelihood to Recommend
  • Amazon API Gateway is helping us a great deal as we put a lot of the administration efforts within the gateway itself instead of our code.
  • Amazon API Gateway is helping us to manipulate our headers both in and out as we want to keep track of additional metadata information.
  • We got great help from the support team at AWS to use Amazon API Gateway.
  • Very easy to set up different scenarios for testing, developing and doing UAT.

The API that everyone needs.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
May 31, 2022
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
In our organization, Amazon API Gateway helps developers to manage, create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs of any and all scales. It helps a lot in streamlining administrations. It has a fantastic setup and security for hosting REST APIs that comply with HIPPA guidelines and regulations. Its operation is very easy to use and flexible.
Pros
  • Hosting REST APIs that follow HIPPA guidelines and regulations.
  • It provides mock responses that help keep check of the automation scenario and reality.
  • It is easy to use and can be customized as per requirements.
Cons
  • The service and support are mediocre at best.
  • It is very hard to debug when something in the code is incorrect..
  • Various programming languages are missing.
Likelihood to Recommend
Experienced a lack of available programming languages while working on a minor project. I had to halt the project and wait for it to be added later. It took ages and had a hit on our productivity. It has a centralized management system which helps and an easy interface which helps to manage multiple tasks in case of large-scale operations and projects.

API Gateway - Easy to manage or not?

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 09, 2021
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Banking Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon API Gateway
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use the [Amazon] API Gateway across the enterprise. Today it is our main communication channel, when it comes to APIs, because it is quite robust, and at the same time flexible enough to be managed and used in the daily activities of different teams, with the necessary security controls. It solved a problem of centralization, simplified management and access control of the APIs.
Pros
  • Centralized Management
  • Easy Interface
  • Connection with external resources
Cons
  • VPC Connection Management
Likelihood to Recommend
We needed a tool that aggregates the APIs, allowing central control, and at the same time reducing the delivery time of the solutions, without worrying about scalability or security. This solution solved these points in a very simple way, giving us even more security (simple things like putting a certificate in front, it delivers for free), and connecting to the services we already used within AWS.

Amazon API Gateway : Secure, Scalable and Robust service

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
July 06, 2019
Verified User
Employee in Research & Development
Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon API Gateway
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Amazon API Gateway is one of the best way to host your services under the AWS umbrella and easy to provide scalability and reliability. Our company is exposing an API service to various clients with custom billing and limitation. In this task, Amazon API provides a great infrastructure and security to host REST APIs with HIPAA compliances.
Pros
  • Scalability & availability.
  • Easy to deploy and customize.
  • API keys and security.
  • Very rich documentation and support by AWS.
Cons
  • Somewhat difficult for new developers with many configuration options.
  • Support only SSL secure custom domains.
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon API Gateway is a very powerful tool, for a small organization. Good for quick developing microservices . It is also great when used as a API gateway that provides authentication over microservices.
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