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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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Popular Features

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  • API usage data (12)
    8.3
    83%
  • API monitoring and logging (13)
    7.6
    76%
  • Rate limits and usage policies (12)
    7.0
    70%
  • API access control (12)
    6.6
    66%
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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

7.8
Avg 8.2
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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 9.3.

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

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March 07, 2020

Amazon API Gateway is great for your API needs

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 and Cons
  • 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.
  • 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.
Amazon API Gateway Feature Ratings
API Management (7)
94.28571428571429%
9.4
API access control
100%
10.0
Rate limits and usage policies
90%
9.0
API usage data
100%
10.0
API user onboarding
100%
10.0
API versioning
90%
9.0
Usage billing and payments
80%
8.0
API monitoring and logging
100%
10.0
Return on Investment
  • The changes are instantaneous and requires a lot less effort.
  • Lots of dev time is saved with using the features provided by Amazon API Gateway.
Alternatives Considered
I feel there is no competition to Amazon API Gateway when it comes to evaluating the cost and ease of use.
Support Rating
10
We always had a great experience with the AWS support team. They were always on time and very dependable. It was a good partnership while we worked to resolve our issues.
Other Software Used
Apache Hive, Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce), Alation Data Catalog, Kubernetes, Azure Data Lake Analytics, Amazon DynamoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, Oracle Access Management, BigTable, Redis
July 12, 2019

API Gateway provides Scalable, Secured, and Well Integrated Endpoints!

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
I think if your software is suitable for event-based architecture, and if you can use Lambda in your architecture, API Gateway is a must and complementary product to use. It provides you tools that you can use to build very scalable and secured endpoints. In my company, we have divided our software into domains and created API Gateway instances for each domain connected to our AWS Lambdas. This provided us better and well-organized APIs which we provide to our customers. The feedback we've received from customers is very positive, and they think that our APIs are well designed and look professional.
Amazon API Gateway Feature Ratings
API Management (7)
75.71428571428571%
7.6
API access control
100%
10.0
Rate limits and usage policies
60%
6.0
API usage data
70%
7.0
API user onboarding
80%
8.0
API versioning
90%
9.0
Usage billing and payments
60%
6.0
API monitoring and logging
70%
7.0
Return on Investment
  • 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.
Alternatives Considered
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.
Other Software Used
AWS Lambda, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Cognito, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
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