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  5. AWS Storage Gateway vs Amazon API Gateway vs Blitz

AWS Storage Gateway vs Amazon API Gateway vs Blitz

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Overview

Blitz
Blitz
Stacks43
Followers41
Votes2
AWS Storage Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway
Stacks17
Followers59
Votes0
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway
Stacks1.4K
Followers1.1K
Votes45

AWS Storage Gateway vs Amazon API Gateway vs Blitz: What are the differences?

Introduction

In this article, we will discuss the key differences between AWS Storage Gateway, Amazon API Gateway, and Blitz. These services offer different functionalities and serve different purposes within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystem.

  1. AWS Storage Gateway: AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid storage service that enables companies to seamlessly integrate their on-premises environments with the cloud storage infrastructure of AWS. It provides a bridge between on-premises applications and AWS cloud storage, allowing data to be accessed, stored, and backed up in the cloud. It supports various storage protocols such as NFS, SMB, and iSCSI, providing flexibility for different types of workloads.

  2. Amazon API Gateway: Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, and manage APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for their applications. It acts as a front door for applications, allowing them to securely expose their functionalities to external clients or other parts of the application stack. API Gateway handles the complexities of API management, including authentication, authorization, throttling, and monitoring. It supports RESTful and WebSocket APIs, allowing developers to create scalable and reliable API infrastructures.

  3. Blitz: It is unclear which service exactly is referred to as "Blitz". There is no popular AWS service known as Blitz. It could potentially be a misnomer or a reference to a different non-AWS service. Therefore, it is not possible to provide specific differences between Blitz and the other two services mentioned.

In summary, AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid storage service that integrates on-premises environments with cloud storage, while Amazon API Gateway is a managed service for creating and managing APIs. The "Blitz" reference is unclear and cannot be further elaborated without more information.

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Detailed Comparison

Blitz
Blitz
AWS Storage Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway

Build bulletproof, scalable solutions with Blitz - a simple and fun service for load testing web apps and APIs in the cloud. Blitz offers powerful yet simple capabilities including continuous monitoring, performance testing and remediation. Blitz enables you to instantly burst up to 50,000 concurrent users against your app in seconds from multiple points of presence around the world.

The AWS Storage Gateway is a service connecting an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage. Once the AWS Storage Gateway’s software appliance is installed on a local host, you can mount Storage Gateway volumes to your on-premises application servers as iSCSI devices, enabling a wide variety of systems and applications to make use of them. Data written to these volumes is maintained on your on-premises storage hardware while being asynchronously backed up to AWS, where it is stored in Amazon Glacier or in Amazon S3 in the form of Amazon EBS snapshots. Snapshots are encrypted to make sure that customers do not have to worry about encrypting sensitive data themselves. When customers need to retrieve data, they can restore snapshots locally, or create Amazon EBS volumes from snapshots for use with applications running in Amazon EC2. It provides low-latency performance by maintaining frequently accessed data on-premises while securely storing all of your data encrypted.

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.

Complex transactions- Whether you want to test a web page or a complex transaction , Blitz makes it easy for you to determine the number of users you can support.;Detailed feedback- Get detailed statistics and feedback in real time, and in plain English;Plugins- With our extension for Chrome or add-on for Firefox , just navigating to a webpage and run a performance test. Blitz takes care of the cookies, authentication and all the other underlying complexities.;Automation- With the Ruby GEM and full integration with Continuous Integration servers like Atlassian's Bamboo CI server, automated performance testing can ensure that no code push can cause a poor experience for your users.;Remediation- Making changes to a web page, application or API can have unintended consequences. Blitz can extract information from your monitoring solution like Google Analytics®, etc. and create a load test to verify the fix.;Monitoring, and Remediation also available
Gateway-Cached Volumes – Gateway-Cached volumes allow you to utilize Amazon S3 for your primary data, while retaining some portion of it locally in a cache for frequently accessed data.;Gateway-Stored Volumes – Gateway-Stored volumes store your primary data locally, while asynchronously backing up that data to AWS.;Data Snapshots – Gateway-Cached volumes and Gateway-Stored volumes provide the ability to create and store point-in-time snapshots of your storage volumes in Amazon S3.;Gateway-VTL – Gateway-VTL provides you with a cost-effective, scalable, and durable virtual tape infrastructure that allows you to eliminate the challenges associated with owning and operating an on-premises physical tape infrastructure.;Secure – The AWS Storage Gateway securely transfers your data to AWS over SSL and stores data encrypted at rest in Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256, a secure symmetric-key encryption standard using 256-bit encryption keys.;Durably backed by Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier –The AWS Storage Gateway durably stores your on-premises application data by uploading it to Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier. Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier redundantly store data in multiple facilities and on multiple devices within each facility. Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier also perform regular, systematic data integrity checks and are built to be automatically self-healing.;Compatible – There is no need to re-architect your on-premises applications. Gateway-Cached volumes and Gateway-Stored volumes expose a standard iSCSI block disk device interface and Gateway-VTL presents a standard iSCSI virtual tape library interface.
Build, Deploy and Manage APIs; Resiliency;API Lifecycle Management;SDK Generation;API Operations Monitoring;AWS Authorization;API Keys for Third-Party Developers
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Pros & Cons
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    Websockets
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    Serverless
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    No websocket broadcast
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    Less expensive
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AppHarbor
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cloudControl
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CloudBees
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CloudFlare
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Engine Yard Cloud
Heroku
Heroku
New Relic
New Relic
PagerDuty
PagerDuty
No integrations available
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch

What are some alternatives to Blitz, AWS Storage Gateway, 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.

k6

k6

It is a developer centric open source load testing tool for testing the performance of your backend infrastructure. It’s built with Go and JavaScript to integrate well into your development workflow.

Locust

Locust

Locust is an easy-to-use, distributed, user load testing tool. Intended for load testing web sites (or other systems) and figuring out how many concurrent users a system can handle.

Tyk Cloud

Tyk Cloud

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.

Gatling

Gatling

Gatling is a highly capable load testing tool. It is designed for ease of use, maintainability and high performance. Out of the box, Gatling comes with excellent support of the HTTP protocol that makes it a tool of choice for load testing any HTTP server. As the core engine is actually protocol agnostic, it is perfectly possible to implement support for other protocols. For example, Gatling currently also ships JMS support.

Loader.io

Loader.io

Loader.io is a free load testing service that allows you to stress test your web-apps/apis with thousands of concurrent connections.

BlazeMeter

BlazeMeter

Simulate any user scenario for webapps, websites, mobile apps or web services. 100% Apache JMeter compatible. Scalable from 1 to 1,000,000+ concurrent users.<br>

Apache JMeter

Apache JMeter

It is open source software, a 100% pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions.

Amazon Glacier

Amazon Glacier

In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable. With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions.

RedLine13

RedLine13

It is a load testing platform that brings the low cost power of the cloud to JMeter and other open source load testing tools.

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