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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 …
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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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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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 9.3.
The most common users of Amazon API Gateway are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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May 31, 2022
The API that everyone needs.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A centralized management system.
- It provides mock responses, which help relate automated scenarios to reality.
- Its capability to integrate with multiple web services and applications.
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8.9
- It helped a lot in increasing productivity.
- Work efficiency increased.
- Productivity sometimes takes a major hit due to a lack of programming languages.
Pricing is better at Amazon API gateway. Amazon API gateway is more user-friendly than SAP HANA Cloud. But SAP HANA Cloud supports more programming languages. The centralized management and monitoring system of Amazon API Gateway is more user-friendly. The User-Interface of Amazon API gateway is also better. Overall we can conclude that Amazon API Gateway provides a better work experience than SAP HANA.
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 integration for static resources.
The main problem that API GW addresses for us is providing an authorization management point for access to internal services. We can use the API keys, authorization hooks, and usage plans to really dial in who can access our applications while controlling how they access them.
The main problem that API GW addresses for us is providing an authorization management point for access to internal services. We can use the API keys, authorization hooks, and usage plans to really dial in who can access our applications while controlling how they access them.
- Swagger integration
- Rate limiting
- API key management
- Lambda Integration
- Testing and rapid development
- Client certificates are troublesome when trying to attach them to API GW stages.
- Debugging across several services can be difficult when API GW is integrated with Route 53 and another service like Lambda or EC2/ELB.
- Creating internal/private APIs, particularly with custom domains, can be unintuitive.
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8.6
- Faster API development.
- Tighter control over resource access with API keys and usage plans.
- Cost savings compared to server based API implementations.
I have reviewed NGINX, Kong, and Azure API Management. While very capable, NGINX and Kong are server-based implementations; my team would prefer not to have another cluster of servers to manage. Having a managed service in API GW is preferable.
While Azure API Management is also a comparable product, the teams I support are heavily invested in AWS making the use of API GW much more approachable.
While Azure API Management is also a comparable product, the teams I support are heavily invested in AWS making the use of API GW much more approachable.
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I have been using API Gateway along with other AWS products. API Gateway provides smooth API architecture which you can easily deploy. In my company, we're using API Gateway integrated with AWS Lambda. API Gateway has mapping templates which you can use to create an event-based architecture. It also gives you the opportunity to protect your endpoints, whether your own "authorization lambda," or via X-API-Key provided from AWS. You may decide to not use an API Key. It gives you the opportunity to define HTTP request headers, query string parameters, or even define the request and response body. You can also export your API as a Postman collection or Swagger to publish it to your users. In our company, we have six different API Gateway instances working with tens of Lambdas. Each instance has a different environment, which provides you with a unique link. We are very happy with API Gateway and do not face any issues except timeout limits until now. Also, enabling CORS is pretty easy, and API Gateway provides you all of the security which makes you feel more comfortable and focus on your work.
- The security provided by API Gateway is very good.
- It's very easy to implement event-based architectures.
- Very fast deployment, and you are good to go in minutes.
- The export features, such as Postman collection or the Swagger extension, are awesome.
- I think there should be another way of enabling CORS. It basically creates OPTIONS for every endpoint, which makes your API Gateway look complicated.
- The integration timeout limit is 30 seconds, which limits you into that time.
- API Gateway UI should be improved and should work correctly when more than two people are adding/editing endpoints.
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7.6
- API Gateway reduced the effort that developers and DevOps use because it provides you with a very smooth way to implement your endpoints.
- We needed to think about getting our endpoints to be resolved under 30 seconds due to the API Gateway timeout limit.
Since we have been using AWS products since the beginning, we did not think about using any competitors of API Gateway. It has great and strong integration with other AWS products.
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.
- Scalability & availability.
- Easy to deploy and customize.
- API keys and security.
- Very rich documentation and support by AWS.
- Somewhat difficult for new developers with many configuration options.
- Support only SSL secure custom domains.
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7.7
- Because deployment is easy, its reduce deployment time and support quick release.
- As cost only on what you used, easy to rapid test different services.
As AWS API comes with more security and API key authentication functions, it's easy for the organization to handle the various customers based with different level of permission. And also very easy comparable to others for tracking the API calls. Also, scalability and reliability are major points to consider for AWS API gateway.