Open-source Backend as a Service with REST API and SDKs
AWS API Gateway
Fully managed API gateway service for creating and managing APIs at scale
Overview
What AWS API Gateway does
AWS API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. It handles traffic management, authorization, and monitoring.
What people use it for
- Fronting Lambda functions with an HTTP endpoint
- REST and HTTP API management with throttling and keys
- WebSocket APIs for real-time clients
- Private APIs reachable only inside a VPC
- Publishing a developer portal for API consumers
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about AWS API Gateway.
- REST APIs cost $3.50 per million calls against $1.00 for HTTP APIs, so the older and more featureful type is three and a half times dearer
- Data transfer out is charged at $0.09 per GB on top of request pricing
- WebSocket APIs bill connection minutes as well as messages, at $0.25 per million minutes
- Private APIs avoid data transfer charges but incur AWS PrivateLink costs instead
- The developer portal is $125 a month, with additional portal products at $12.50 each
- The free tier lasts 12 months rather than being ongoing
Pricing
What AWS API Gateway costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free Tier
Free
- 1M requests per month
- Basic API management
Pay-as-you-go
$3.5 /per 1M requests
- Unlimited requests
- HTTP APIs
- REST APIs
Capabilities
Features
REST APIs
REST APIs capability
WebSocket APIs
WebSocket APIs capability
HTTP APIs
HTTP APIs capability
Lambda
Integration with Lambda
EC2
Integration with EC2
DynamoDB
Integration with DynamoDB
CloudWatch
Integration with CloudWatch
IAM
Integration with IAM
AWS Cloud support
Available on AWS Cloud
Behind it
Who makes AWS API Gateway
- Company
- Amazon Web Services
- Based in
- Seattle, Washington, USA
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