Amazon API Gateway vs API Blueprint

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Amazon API Gateway vs API Blueprint: What are the differences?

Developers describe Amazon API Gateway as "Create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale". 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. On the other hand, API Blueprint is detailed as "A powerful high-level API design language for web APIs". API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the API lifecycle. Its syntax is concise yet expressive. With API Blueprint you can quickly design and prototype APIs to be created or document and test already deployed mission-critical APIs.

Amazon API Gateway and API Blueprint can be categorized as "API" tools.

API Blueprint is an open source tool with 7.52K GitHub stars and 2.07K GitHub forks. Here's a link to API Blueprint's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Amazon API Gateway
Pros of API Blueprint
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    AWS Integration
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    Websockets
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    Serverless
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    Easy to use
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    Ecosystem of tools

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Cons of Amazon API Gateway
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    No websocket broadcast
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    Less expensive
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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.

    What is API Blueprint?

    API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the API lifecycle. Its syntax is concise yet expressive. With API Blueprint you can quickly design and prototype APIs to be created or document and test already deployed mission-critical APIs.

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      What are some alternatives to Amazon API Gateway and API Blueprint?
      Apigee
      API management, design, analytics, and security are at the heart of modern digital architecture. The Apigee intelligent API platform is a complete solution for moving business to the digital world.
      Kong
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      NGINX
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      Zuul
      It is the front door for all requests from devices and websites to the backend of the Netflix streaming application. As an edge service application, It is built to enable dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, and security. Routing is an integral part of a microservice architecture.
      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.
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