Amazon API Gateway Reviews

Name: Amazon API Gateway
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (40 reviews)

Vendor: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.1 out of 5

40 reviews
92% willing to recommend

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What is Amazon API Gateway?

Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can create an API that 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 Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), code running on AWS Lambda, or any Web application.

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Amazon API Gateway is the #3 ranked solution in top API Management solutions. PeerSpot users give Amazon API Gateway an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Amazon API Gateway is most commonly compared to Microsoft Azure API Management: Amazon API Gateway vs Microsoft Azure API Management. Amazon API Gateway is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 67% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 15% of all views.

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Rahul Kundu

AWS Engineer at Abbott

We are using API Gateway to route the traffic to our Lambdas. Every API pass is linked to some of the Lambdas. When traffic hits CloudFront, it redirects it to API Gateway, which then redirects it to the respective Lambda server. We have different kinds of services invoked through these Lambdas…

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Anup Karade

Associate Vice President at LTIMindtree

The only issue we've noticed is a lack of awareness when it comes to partner collaboration. Customers prefer using separate API gateways for scalability. Apart from that, feature-wise, most API management solutions offer similar features and learning resources on how to use them. The pricing could be improved. In cases where customers require real-time sync or real-time calling groups with IoT, the volume of data and time lag become a concern. AWS charges for data ingress and egress, which could be further reduced. This would be helpful for customers dealing with large amounts of data coming in or going out from their systems. So, improving pricing for volume data transfer is something that can be considered, as it has been consistent feedback from customers.

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Ajay Chouksey

Head of Data & ML Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The main concern is connectivity. When someone requests a mobile score, we need to query the backend DB using prospect numbers. This involves going from AWS to the Oracle DB in Oracle Cloud, fetching data through SQL queries, and then feeding it back to the model running on AWS. This process takes a considerable amount of time. It's like dealing with connectivity issues because of the direct connection. Although I find AWS API Gateway better than Oracle in many aspects, the network connectivity challenges force us to consider using Oracle API Gateway for our new product, LOS (Load Origination System). This new product will involve extensive interaction with the databases, and we cannot afford network connectivity issues. This is the only drawback I've encountered. Even though AWS API Gateway is better in several respects, we are leaning towards Oracle API Gateway due to its compatibility with our Oracle backend databases. Traditionally, enterprise databases are Oracle databases, and that's why we work with Oracle Cloud. We're also exploring MuleSoft, which offers a wide range of features and services, although cost is a concern.

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Amazon API Gateway mindshare

As of October 2024, the mindshare of Amazon API Gateway in the API Management category stands at 14.6%, down from 15.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"API Gateway is easy to set up, allows for custom domain assignment and rate limiting based on customer tiers, and works well for defining different states for different customers based on their purchase plans."
"The Lambda features are very cost-effective since you do not have to run your servers 24/7."
"It's a low-code solution that helps our company manage operations seamlessly"

Room for Improvement

"When using APIs, the manual bit for intermediate confirmation with VTL can be a challenge."
"There are features lacking in API Gateway, such as the timeout settings, which currently are set at 29 seconds."
"The solution should include change data capture (CDC) features that will help reduce workload"

Pricing

"My understanding is that it easily goes to $14,000 or $15,000 USD each month for each account, and we have several such accounts."
"Azure products are more cost-effective than AWS solutions"
"I rate the platform's pricing a five out of ten."

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