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Amazon API Gateway vs Insomnia REST Client: What are the differences?
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; Insomnia REST Client: The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client 😴. Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.
Amazon API Gateway and Insomnia REST Client belong to "API Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Amazon API Gateway are:
- Build, Deploy and Manage APIs
- Resiliency
- API Lifecycle Management
On the other hand, Insomnia REST Client provides the following key features:
- Mac, Windows and Linux
- Data import/export
- SSL client certificates
"AWS Integration" is the primary reason why developers consider Amazon API Gateway over the competitors, whereas "Easy to work with" was stated as the key factor in picking Insomnia REST Client.
Insomnia REST Client is an open source tool with 10.2K GitHub stars and 590 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Insomnia REST Client's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Amazon API Gateway has a broader approval, being mentioned in 170 company stacks & 65 developers stacks; compared to Insomnia REST Client, which is listed in 35 company stacks and 30 developer stacks.
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Pros of Amazon API Gateway
- AWS Integration36
- Websockets5
- Serverless1
Pros of Insomnia REST Client
- Easy to work with16
- Great user interface11
- Works with GraphQL6
- Cross platform, available for Mac, Windows, and Linux3
- Opensource2
- Preserves request templates2
- Does not have history feature0
- Vim and Emacs key map0
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Cons of Amazon API Gateway
- Less expensive1
- No websocket broadcast1
Cons of Insomnia REST Client
- Do not have team sharing options4
- Do not store credentials in HTTP2