AWS API Gateway is a solid solution to orchestrate your web services.
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon API Gateway
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 authentication to our APIs, build out consolidated responses from different API endpoints, and to provide a single point of access to multiple web service APIs developed using a myriad of different technologies and programming languages. It also provides a great way to document and integrate web services via Swagger integrations.
Pros
- Service orchestration
- Response transformations
- Authentication and Authorization
- Request throttling
- Integration with multiple types of web services
Cons
- Ease of configuration
- Easier integration with different AWS network schemes
- Development time for API applications has been reduced by 15%
- Issues related to auth reduced by 50%
- Velocity of integrating heterogenous API applications has increased by 30-40%
Our primary architecture is AWS, so we selected [Amazon] API Gateway as our gateway solution. While Apigee and SwaggerHub provide great solutions for service orchestration, [Amazon] API Gateway provided the best integrations with our web services which were mostly running within AWS behind AWS load balancers. [Amazon] API Gateway could also act as a trigger for a set of AWS Lambda functions that we were using for small task APIs.
Do you think Amazon API Gateway delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Amazon API Gateway's feature set?
Yes
Did Amazon API Gateway live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Amazon API Gateway go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Amazon API Gateway again?
Yes
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