#1 most frequent
United States of America
54.6%5,301 installations of 9,705
What is Amazon API Gateway?
AWS offers the Amazon API Gateway supports the creation and publication of an API for web applications, as well as its monitoring and maintenance. The Amazon API Gateway is able to support thousands of API calls concurrently and provides traffic management, as well as monitoring and access control.
Categories & Use Cases
Top Performing Features
API versioning
There are mechanisms to roll out new versions of the API and the ability to migrate applications to new versions.
Category average: 8.1
API usage data
Analysis of traffic patterns to track how API is being used
Category average: 8.3
API user onboarding
Systems to allow users to sign up, receive access credentials and be assigned usage rights
Category average: 8.3
Areas for Improvement
API monitoring and logging
Regular test cycles to check that APIs are operating as expected and log analysis providing deeper analysis on system usage
Category average: 8
Rate limits and usage policies
Usage quotas to restrict traffic volumes to keep traffic loads manageable
Category average: 7.7
API access control
Authentication and authorization systems to ensure that users of the API have permission
Category average: 8.2
Who Buys & Uses Amazon API Gateway
#2 most frequent
India
7.9%764 installations of 9,705
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
6.0%587 installations of 9,705
The API that everyone needs.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
In our organization, Amazon API Gateway helps developers to manage, create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs of any and all scales. It helps a lot in streamlining administrations. It has a fantastic setup and security for hosting REST APIs that comply with HIPPA guidelines and regulations. Its operation is very easy to use and flexible.
Pros
- Hosting REST APIs that follow HIPPA guidelines and regulations.
- It provides mock responses that help keep check of the automation scenario and reality.
- It is easy to use and can be customized as per requirements.
Cons
- The service and support are mediocre at best.
- It is very hard to debug when something in the code is incorrect..
- Various programming languages are missing.
Most Important Features
- A centralized management system.
- It provides mock responses, which help relate automated scenarios to reality.
- Its capability to integrate with multiple web services and applications.
Return on Investment
- It helped a lot in increasing productivity.
- Work efficiency increased.
- Productivity sometimes takes a major hit due to a lack of programming languages.
Alternatives Considered
SAP HANA Cloud
Other Software Used
Razorpay Payment Gateway, Amazon CloudSearch, Ascend, by Wix
API Gateway is Great for Integrating REST and HTTP Access to Other AWS Resources
Pros
- Swagger integration
- Rate limiting
- API key management
- Lambda Integration
- Testing and rapid development
Cons
- Client certificates are troublesome when trying to attach them to API GW stages.
- Debugging across several services can be difficult when API GW is integrated with Route 53 and another service like Lambda or EC2/ELB.
- Creating internal/private APIs, particularly with custom domains, can be unintuitive.
Return on Investment
- Faster API development.
- Tighter control over resource access with API keys and usage plans.
- Cost savings compared to server based API implementations.
Other Software Used
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Aurora, PagerDuty
AWS API Gateway is a solid solution to orchestrate your web services.
Pros
- Service orchestration
- Response transformations
- Authentication and Authorization
- Request throttling
- Integration with multiple types of web services
Cons
- Ease of configuration
- Easier integration with different AWS network schemes
Return on Investment
- Development time for API applications has been reduced by 15%
- Issues related to auth reduced by 50%
- Velocity of integrating heterogenous API applications has increased by 30-40%
Alternatives Considered
Apigee Edge and SwaggerHub
Other Software Used
Lucidchart, Postman, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift
Second Best product from Amazon
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I would say we are satisfied with the services provided by Amazon API Gateway to our project and to our company. We were trying API Gateway on lambdas and it helped our project to get to the milestone where we would tried to reach. We communicated lambdas to complete the micro services flow.
Pros
- Business Process Agility
- It can improve business outcomes in terms of revenue
- Creates efficiency of services
Cons
- It creates unnecessary challenges for customers
- Creates confusion to set permissions
Most Important Features
- caching response
- traffic rate control
Return on Investment
- It met ROI we targeted
- Timely implementation
Alternatives Considered
Postman
API Gateway - Easy to manage or not?
Pros
- Centralized Management
- Easy Interface
- Connection with external resources
Cons
- VPC Connection Management
Return on Investment
- Positive, which accelerated business deliveries in months
- Negative, but in our positive case, if you are going to change the solution in the future, you need to adjust several things for the new solution.
- Positive, users celebrated with ease of use (lower learning curve, lower cost).
- Positive - Pay according to usage
Alternatives Considered
Azure API Management
Other Software Used
Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Route 53, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Simple Email Service, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Web Services