Amazon API Gateway : Secure, Scalable and Robust service
July 06, 2019
Amazon API Gateway : Secure, Scalable and Robust service
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon API Gateway
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.
- 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.