AWS API Gateway
Create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
Overview
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that allows developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs. It acts as a 'front door' for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your back-end services, such as workloads running on Amazon EC2, code running on AWS Lambda, or any web application. API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls.
✨ Key Features
- RESTful APIs and WebSocket APIs
- Traffic management (throttling, caching)
- Security (authentication, authorization)
- API lifecycle management
- Monitoring and logging
- Serverless integration with AWS Lambda
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Deep integration with the AWS ecosystem.
- Pay-as-you-go pricing model.
- Serverless-first approach.
Unique Value: Offers a seamless and cost-effective way to build, deploy, and manage APIs within the AWS cloud.
🎯 Use Cases (3)
✅ Best For
- High-scale serverless backends with AWS Lambda
- Proxying requests to various AWS services
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Multi-cloud or on-premises deployments without significant workarounds
🏆 Alternatives
Tightly integrated with AWS services, making it simpler to use for AWS-native applications compared to third-party gateways.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Business / Enterprise Support plans tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
Free tier: 1 million HTTP API calls, 1 million REST API calls, 1 million messages, and 750,000 connection minutes for WebSocket APIs per month for 12 months.
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