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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 - 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.

It is not as easy to integrate as they tell you

Rating: 3 out of 10
Incentivized
March 08, 2021
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon API Gateway
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Amazon API Gateway is used to migrate existing legacy apps and to create new apps based on the latest department initiatives. It is allowing us to generate more "generic" APIs that can be easily shared across different applications and it is easier to develop with lambda behind it. We are now moving more and more towards cloud and serverless and this perfectly fit our needs.
Pros
  • Easy to create.
  • Easy to deploy.
  • Easy to integrate with other AWS services/products.
Cons
  • It is not as simple as they claim it is.
  • CORS is never explained in details how it works on Amazon API Gateway.
  • It needs better documentation.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is great if you want to have a single point of entry that is scalable and has redundancy but be prepared to spend days not being able to figure out what the problem is and how to solve it. Errors are not very descriptive, it lacks documentation to explain the basic flow of data in this service, and troubleshooting issues especially CORS is a nightmare. Until we hired AWS Developer to have a 2-day session to go through this service and how to set it up and use it, it was just a nightmare. And even after having a session they still did not explain all the features and setup, they pointed us to documentation, but documentation is not very well written.

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.

Amazon API Gateway - Right tool for web services development

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
March 15, 2021
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Marketing & Advertising Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon API Gateway
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Amazon API Gateway at the IT department for all internal and external tools integration which involves web services. Our organization uses Amazon API Gateway to have an authentication layer and security for all the public-facing web services. It helped our organization to have better security and zero downtime for new version deployments.
Pros
  • API Authentication
  • Zero downtime
  • Easy deployment
Cons
  • Not so easy to use for the first time
  • Need more examples in the documentation with multiple programming languages
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon API Gateway is powerful service where any organization/team can start developing webs services in less than few hours. It is well suited integration with any other AWS services like Lamda, Cloudwatch etc.. Easy to add authentication layer for web services and deployment with multiple versions. As it is server less, billing is based on usage.

Scalable, robust and efficient entry point to the world of AWS services

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 29, 2019
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon API Gateway
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Amazon API Gateway has been adopted by multiple teams within our organization.
It offers an intuitive easy-to-use entry point to the AWS serverless services, and has helped our team move traditional 3-tier web applications to the cloud with ease.
Pros
  • Support for multiple stages/environments.
  • Great settings for configuring routing, caching, and CORS.
  • Integrates well with other AWS services.
Cons
  • Granting permissions for accessing Lambda functions using stage variables needs to be improved.
  • Reminders to deploy the API after changes have been made would be helpful.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is best suited for building out the APIs for a serverless backend. It may not be the best option for Mobile backends, in which case AWS AppSync would be preferred over API Gateway.
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