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Amazon API Gateway vs GitHub Pages

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Overview

GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages
Stacks17.8K
Followers13.0K
Votes1.1K
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway
Stacks1.4K
Followers1.1K
Votes45

Amazon API Gateway vs GitHub Pages: What are the differences?

What is Amazon API Gateway? 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.

What is GitHub Pages? Public webpages freely hosted and easily published. Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.

Amazon API Gateway and GitHub Pages are primarily classified as "API" and "Static Web Hosting" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Amazon API Gateway are:

  • Build, Deploy and Manage APIs
  • Resiliency
  • API Lifecycle Management

On the other hand, GitHub Pages provides the following key features:

  • Blogging with Jekyll
  • Custom URLs
  • Automatic Page Generator

"AWS Integration" is the top reason why over 23 developers like Amazon API Gateway, while over 283 developers mention "Free" as the leading cause for choosing GitHub Pages.

Lyft, CircleCI, and HubSpot are some of the popular companies that use GitHub Pages, whereas Amazon API Gateway is used by Intuit, Repro, and Zumba. GitHub Pages has a broader approval, being mentioned in 576 company stacks & 683 developers stacks; compared to Amazon API Gateway, which is listed in 170 company stacks and 65 developer stacks.

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Advice on GitHub Pages, Amazon API Gateway

Howie
Howie

Full Stack Engineer at Yintrust

Aug 13, 2020

DecidedonNetlifyNetlify

We use Netlify to host static websites.

The reasons for choosing Netlify over GitHub Pages are as follows:

  • Netfily can bind multiple domain names, while GitHub Pages can only bind one domain name
  • With Netfily, the original repository can be private, while GitHub Pages free tier requires the original repository to be public

In addition, in order to use CDN, we use Netlify DNS.

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Detailed Comparison

GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway

Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.

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.

Blogging with Jekyll; Custom URLs; Automatic Page Generator
Build, Deploy and Manage APIs; Resiliency;API Lifecycle Management;SDK Generation;API Operations Monitoring;AWS Authorization;API Keys for Third-Party Developers
Statistics
Stacks
17.8K
Stacks
1.4K
Followers
13.0K
Followers
1.1K
Votes
1.1K
Votes
45
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 290
    Free
  • 217
    Right out of github
  • 185
    Quick to set up
  • 108
    Instant
  • 107
    Easy to learn
Cons
  • 4
    Not possible to perform HTTP redirects
  • 3
    Supports only Jekyll
  • 3
    Limited Jekyll plugins
  • 1
    Jekyll is bloated
Pros
  • 37
    AWS Integration
  • 7
    Websockets
  • 1
    Serverless
Cons
  • 2
    No websocket broadcast
  • 1
    Less expensive
Integrations
GitHub
GitHub
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch

What are some alternatives to GitHub Pages, Amazon API Gateway?

DomainRacer

DomainRacer

It is a blazing fast hosting solution that provides Customer Satisfaction driven Web Hosting services since 2016.

Netlify

Netlify

Netlify is smart enough to process your site and make sure all assets gets optimized and served with perfect caching-headers from a cookie-less domain. We make sure your HTML is served straight from our CDN edge nodes without any round-trip to our backend servers and are the only ones to give you instant cache invalidation when you push a new deploy. Netlify is also the only static hosting service with integrated continuous deployment.

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.

Vercel

Vercel

A cloud platform for serverless deployment. It enables developers to host websites and web services that deploy instantly, scale automatically, and require no supervision, all with minimal configuration.

Surge

Surge

Surge makes it easy for developers to deploy projects to a production-quality CDN through Grunt, Gulp, npm.

Webflow

Webflow

Webflow is a responsive design tool that lets you design, build, and publish websites in an intuitive interface. Clean code included!

Divshot

Divshot

Divshot makes building and hosting front-end web applications simple. Build locally and deploy using a simple command-line interface. Divshot supports multiple environments, pushState routing, atomic deploys, and more.

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.

GitLab Pages

GitLab Pages

Host your static websites on GitLab.com for free, or on your own GitLab Enterprise Edition instance. Use any static website generator: Jekyll, Middleman, Hexo, Hugo, Pelican, and more

Firebase Hosting

Firebase Hosting

It is production-grade web content hosting for developers. With a single command, you can quickly deploy web apps and serve both static and dynamic content to a global CDN (content delivery network). You can also pair it with Cloud Functions or Cloud Run to build and host microservices.

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