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Amazon API Gateway
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Amazon API Gateway

#8in API Tools
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What is Amazon API Gateway?

Amazon API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management.

Amazon API Gateway is a tool in the API Tools category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Build, Deploy and Manage APIsResiliencyAPI Lifecycle ManagementSDK GenerationAPI Operations MonitoringAWS AuthorizationAPI Keys for Third-Party Developers

Amazon API Gateway Pros & Cons

Pros of Amazon API Gateway

  • ✓AWS Integration
  • ✓Websockets
  • ✓Serverless

Cons of Amazon API Gateway

  • ✗No websocket broadcast
  • ✗Less expensive

Amazon API Gateway Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Amazon API Gateway?

Kong

Kong

Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as an API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong controls layer 4 and 7 traffic and is extended through Plugins, which provide extra functionality and services beyond the core platform.

Ambassador

Ambassador

Map services to arbitrary URLs in a single, declarative YAML file. Configure routes with CORS support, circuit breakers, timeouts, and more. Replace your Kubernetes ingress controller. Route gRPC, WebSockets, or HTTP.

Azure API Management

Azure API Management

Today's innovative enterprises are adopting API architectures to accelerate growth. Streamline your work across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with a single place for managing all your APIs.

Tyk Cloud

Tyk Cloud

Amazon API Gateway Integrations

AWS Lambda, Amazon CloudWatch, JAWS, Chalice, Zappa and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Amazon API Gateway. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Amazon API Gateway.

AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch
JAWS
JAWS
Chalice
Chalice
Zappa
Zappa
dawson
dawson
Lambdacult
Lambdacult
AWS Amplify
AWS Amplify
LocalStack
LocalStack
Architect
Architect
Serverless
Serverless
RealtimeApp
RealtimeApp

Tyk is a leading Open Source API Gateway and Management Platform, featuring an API gateway, analytics, developer portal and dashboard. We power billions of transactions for thousands of innovative organisations.

API Umbrella

API Umbrella

API Umbrella is a proxy that sits in front of your APIs. It can seamlessly add common functionality like api keys, rate limiting, and analytics to any API.

Moesif

Moesif

Build a winning API platform with instant, meaningful visibility into API usage and customer adoption

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A Luthra
A Luthra

VP Software Engrg

Sep 9, 2020

Needs adviceonAmazon API GatewayAmazon API GatewayApigeeApigee

Amazon API Gateway vs Apigee. How do they compare as an API Gateway? What is the equivalent functionality, similarities, and differences moving from Apigee API GW to AWS API GW?

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Sung Won Chung
Sung Won Chung

Jun 5, 2019

Needs adviceonAWS LambdaAWS LambdaAmazon VPCAmazon VPCAWS Secrets ManagerAWS Secrets Manager

I use AWS Lambda because it is the most mature of the major cloud platforms for serverless functions. The fact that you can add VPC configs at the start is huge from a security perspective. However, it does take a lot of work to configure the Amazon VPC to work with AWS Secrets Manager and Lambda. It's also nice because it works so well with Amazon API Gateway

I typically use it to connect with databases to insert and extract information for downstream analytics.

I won't be surprised if one day the majority of workloads run on this service. Not having to manage and maintain infrastructure is truly a blessing.

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Patty R
Patty R

Cloud Automation Developer

Mar 31, 2017

Needs adviceonAmazon API GatewayAmazon API Gateway

Triggers the Lambda function from a GitHub WebHook push into https://github.com/smyleeface/smylee_hugo_site. Amazon API Gateway

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Edward Woodcock
Edward Woodcock

Tech & Product at Simple Merchant

Mar 7, 2016

Needs adviceonAmazon API GatewayAmazon API Gateway

API Gateway in conjunction with Lambda has allowed us to become 'serverless'. We have a number of API endpoints that range from simple CRUD operations, through to triggering chains of complex background jobs. Like Lambda, this service has released us from getting bogged down in infrastructure management, freeing up huge amounts of time to focus on solving business problems. Amazon API Gateway

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