The API that everyone needs.
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Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway
Starting at $0.90 Per Million
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View all 7 featuresAPI access control (11)
8.7
87%
Rate limits and usage policies (11)
8.7
87%
API usage data (11)
8.6
86%
API monitoring and logging (12)
7.9
79%
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API Management
8.5
85%
Product Details
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 management, as well as monitoring and access control.
Amazon API Gateway Technical Details
| Deployment Types | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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 management, as well as monitoring and access control.
What is Amazon API Gateway's best feature?
Reviewers rate Usage billing and payments highest, with a score of 9.3.
Who uses Amazon API Gateway?
The most common users of Amazon API Gateway are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Computer Software industry.
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May 31, 2022
The API that everyone needs.
- 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.
- API Authentication
- Zero downtime
- Easy deployment
- Not so easy to use for the first time
- Need more examples in the documentation with multiple programming languages
- 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.
March 09, 2021
API Gateway - Easy to manage or not?
- Centralized Management
- Easy Interface
- Connection with external resources
- VPC Connection Management
- Service orchestration
- Response transformations
- Authentication and Authorization
- Request throttling
- Integration with multiple types of web services
- Ease of configuration
- Easier integration with different AWS network schemes
March 08, 2021
It is not as easy to integrate as they tell you
- Easy to create.
- Easy to deploy.
- Easy to integrate with other AWS services/products.
- 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.
March 07, 2020
Amazon API Gateway is great for your API needs
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Support for multiple stages/environments.
- Great settings for configuring routing, caching, and CORS.
- Integrates well with other AWS services.
- 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.
February 05, 2019
API Gateway - Great web toolkit for publishing APIs
- 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.
- 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.
January 09, 2019
A Powerful Tool for Developing Micro-Services Rapidly
- API Gateway integrates well with AWS Lambda. This allows us to build a web server in the language and framework of our choice, deploy it as a Lambda function, and expose it through API Gateway.
- API Gateway manages API keys. Building rate limiting and request quota features are not trivial (or interesting).
- API Gateway's pricing can be very attractive for services that are accessed infrequently.
- API Gateway introduces some concepts, such as Stages and Integration Requests, that are foreign to most developers. The documentation hints in the Console help, but sometimes these concepts are not transferred to frameworks like Serverless.
- Systems that use API Gateway may behave differently in end-to-end tests in local or CI environments.
- Navigating the Console can be confusing.
- It could be easier to codify API Gateway configurations.