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Amazon API Gateway vs Apiary: What are the differences?
# Key Differences between Amazon API Gateway and Apiary
Amazon API Gateway and Apiary are both popular tools used for building and managing APIs. However, there are key differences between the two that can impact your decision on which to use for your project.
1. **Integration with AWS Services**: Amazon API Gateway is tightly integrated with various AWS services, allowing for seamless connections and interactions with other components of your AWS infrastructure. On the other hand, Apiary operates independently of any cloud provider and has its own set of features for API management.
2. **Pricing Model**: Amazon API Gateway follows a pay-as-you-go pricing model, where you are charged based on the number of API calls made and data transferred. Apiary, on the other hand, offers a free tier for small projects but charges for additional features and usage beyond a certain threshold.
3. **Performance and Scalability**: Amazon API Gateway is known for its high performance and scalability, especially when dealing with a large volume of API requests. Apiary may have limitations in terms of performance and scalability as it is not directly tied to a major cloud infrastructure provider like AWS.
4. **API Documentation Tools**: Apiary is particularly known for its robust API documentation tools, making it easier for developers to understand and work with APIs. While Amazon API Gateway also provides documentation capabilities, Apiary may offer more advanced features for API documentation.
5. **Security Features**: Amazon API Gateway provides various security features, such as authentication and authorization mechanisms, to secure your APIs. Apiary may have fewer built-in security features or may require additional tools to achieve the same level of security.
6. **Customization and Flexibility**: Amazon API Gateway offers a high level of customization and flexibility, allowing you to tailor your API setup to your specific needs. Apiary may have limitations in terms of customization options and may not be as flexible in certain configurations.
In Summary, when choosing between Amazon API Gateway and Apiary, consider factors such as integration with existing infrastructure, pricing, performance, documentation, security, and customization needs to determine which tool best suits your project requirements.
Advice on Amazon API Gateway and Apiary
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From a StackShare Community member: "I just started working for a start-up and we are in desperate need of better documentation for our API. Currently our API docs is in a README.md file. We are evaluating Postman and Swagger UI. Since there are many options and I was wondering what other StackSharers would recommend?"
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Jagdeep Singh
Tech Lead at ucreate.it · | 8 upvotes · 377.2K views
I use Postman because of the ease of team-management, using workspaces and teams, runner, collections, environment variables, test-scripts (post execution), variable management (pre and post execution), folders (inside collections, for better management of APIs), newman, easy-ci-integration (and probably a few more things that I am not able to recall right now).
Jadenko
I use Swagger UI because it's an easy tool for end-consumers to visualize and test our APIs. It focuses on that ! And it's directly embedded and delivered with the APIs. Postman's built-in tools aren't bad, but their main focus isn't the documentation and also, they are hosted outside the project.
Sadik Ay
Backend Engineer · | 2 upvotes · 348.2K views
I recommend Postman because it's easy to use with history option. Also, it has very great features like runner, collections, test scripts runners, defining environment variables and simple exporting and importing data.
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- AWS Integration37
- Websockets7
- Serverless1
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- Easy to use29
- Free to use19
- Traffic inspector12
- Free11
- Collaboration10
- Mock API7
- Dashboard4
- Customization3
- 30 Days Trial2
- Access Control2
- Documentation2
- Validate API Documentation2
- API explorer1
- Clean syntax1
- Provisioning1
- Shared API blueprint templates1
- Github integration helps with collaboration1
- Code auto-generation1
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- Less expensive1
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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.
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What are some alternatives to Amazon API Gateway and Apiary?
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
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.
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
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.