Amazon API Gateway Reviews & Product Details

Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that enables developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. It acts as the "front door" for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from backend services. With API Gateway, you can build RESTful APIs and WebSocket APIs that support real-time two-way communication applications. The service is designed to handle the heavy lifting involved in processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including tasks such as traffic management, authorization and access control, throttling, monitoring, and API version management. API Gateway supports containerized and serverless workloads, as well as web applications, and offers developer portals to centrally discover, document, and govern your REST APIs across your AWS infrastructure. Key Features and Functionality: - Efficient API Development: Run multiple versions of the same API simultaneously, allowing for quick iteration, testing, and release of new versions. - Performance at Any Scale: Leverage a global network of edge locations using Amazon CloudFront to provide low-latency API requests and responses. - Cost Savings at Scale: Benefit from a tiered pricing model that reduces costs as API usage increases, with prices as low as $0.90 per million requests at the highest tier. - Easy Monitoring: Monitor performance metrics, including API calls, data latency, and error rates, through the API Gateway dashboard integrated with Amazon CloudWatch. - Flexible Security Controls: Authorize access to APIs using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Amazon Cognito, with support for OAuth tokens and custom authorization requirements via AWS Lambda authorizers. - RESTful API Options: Create RESTful APIs using HTTP APIs or REST APIs, with HTTP APIs being up to 71% cheaper than REST APIs for most use cases. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Amazon API Gateway simplifies the process of building and managing APIs by handling the complexities of API development, including traffic management, security, monitoring, and version control. It enables developers to focus on building applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. By providing a scalable, cost-effective, and secure platform for API management, API Gateway helps organizations efficiently connect their applications to backend services, ensuring high performance and reliability.

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Gab K.

Senior Lead Engineer

Insurance

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/14/2023

"Great toolkit to start with if you want to setup/monetize your API easily"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway?

Seamless integration with other AWS services like Lambda

easy to manage deployments, mapping API keys and even data validation. You can define the API resources with a very granular level for every path & method. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway?

If you want to define it from SAM/CloudFormation, the config could be quite uneasy if you want to have further customizations from the common starter setups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/6/2023

"Streamlined but flexible cloud API management"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway?

Amazon API Gateway makes it easy to manage cloud-based APIs and functions. Integrating with internal AWS features as well as external sources is well-designed and user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway?

API Gateway does a decent job of making costs clear, but at times it's unclear exactly how much it will cost to run an API in production. There are also some features that require some special skillsets to understand well enough to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Naveen Y.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/26/2023

"Api Gateway for Api forwarding"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway?

Its the single endpoint I configure and call through all my applications, Most times never crossing the free limit.

Api latency is negligible and can be used in most apps , The port feature is lacking , We can't call endpoints with a port at end.

It can be easily setup and integrated with most applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway?

I wish they increase the default timeout to 60s atleast.

Without that it has caused us problems during some lambda functions where the function is running but the api returns timeout error. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mathews S.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/26/2023

"Amazon API Management through API Gateway"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway?

The ease of use of the software and the support from AWS when we use their native solutions. We used it very frequently as our customer was using API rate limiting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway?

The features are limited and it needs to expand to API discovery for more better rate limiting functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/28/2023

"Amazon API Gateway: A flexible and scalable API Gateway"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway?

The things which I like most about Amazon API Gateway is its flexibility, security and scalability. It is used to create and manage different type of APIs like HTTP API, Web socket API , REST API etc. We can easily create an API Gateway using AWS console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway?

Till now there is nothing which I dislike but it will be little bit expensive for high-traffic APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solves a number of problems for us some of them are :

It manages all of our APIs, it can be integrated with wide variety of backend services like lambda, EC2, ECS etc. It also gives security features to our APIs which helps us to block the unauthorized users for accessing our APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Atishay J.

SDE1

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/5/2023

"Amazon API Gateway - A simple, fast and scalable solution for APIs"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway?

With the help of Amazon API gateway you can focus on writing business logic rather than focusing on hosting, scaling etc.

You can simply implement and integrate in frontend code,You can build REST as well as web socket APIs.

Amazon provides 1 million free API calls for 1 year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway?

Getting hands on for first time with api gateway can be bit difficult. Otherwise it's will be first choice if you don't want to create backend system by your own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rohit S.

Manager - Analytics

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/14/2023

"Connecting multiple AWS services to create deploy & enhance applications"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway?

The best thing I see is it's seamless integration with other AWS Services thus contributing to efficient API Management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway?

I haven't seen any disadvantage maybe because I used it for very small period of time. I liked all the features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hanumantha Rao B.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/17/2023

"Secure Gateway from Internet"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway?

The ease of use and the ease of Implementation is the best. And the possibility to import Swagger to be able to create API gateway is amazing, so that we dont have to manually add all the resources and paths. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway?

I feel the User Interface can be little better that what we currently have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anshul G.

Senior Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/28/2023

"API Gateway-Best Tool in Market"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway?

Amazon API gateway simplifies api creation and management, saves time and effort. Best thing is it provides robust security and ensures data protection. Seamlessly connect with aws services and external endpoints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway?

Sometimes setting it up and configuring its advanced options might be a little tricky for new ones. Also it becomes expensive as our usage increase with time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek S.

Software Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/18/2023

"Amazon API a perfect gateway"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway?

The best about Amazon api gateway is the variety of modules it provides in terms of connecting applications with api. Not only modules, but accessibility is also great. It makes life easy for developers to manage, operate and do operation on APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway?

I wish I could find any dislike related to this gateway. Everything is up to the mark. From integration, scalability, deployment of service and many more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.