Amazon API Gateway Reviews

Name: Amazon API Gateway
Brand: Amazon
Rating: 4 (25 reviews)

Vendor: Amazon

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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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Venkataraju Nandam

Solution Architect at SID GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LLC

Nov 17, 2023

What is our primary use case Our clients have specific use cases. They require a gateway that performs well and can handle around three hundred requests per quarter. What is most valuable? It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions…

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Ajay Chouksey

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

Sep 1, 2023

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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Anup Karade

Principal Director at LTIMINDTREE

Jul 5, 2023

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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Pricing

"It is somewhat costly, particularly when it introduces server-related features, which are often scheduled on our end."
"It's cost-effective, even as our workload and the number of APIs we manage have increased."
"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."

Valuable Features

"It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"In terms of scalability, I haven't encountered any issues with API Gateway. We've significantly increased our traffic from hitting it once or twice a minute to now hitting it ten to fifteen times within a minute. In an hour, we're receiving hundreds of hits. So, it's performing excellently."
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."

Room For Improvement

"Their support services come at a considerable cost, leaving room for improvement."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"When working with XML payloads, there can be issues due to the lack of a seamless connection between API Gateway and Lambda functions."

Pricing

"It is somewhat costly, particularly when it introduces server-related features, which are often scheduled on our end."
"It's cost-effective, even as our workload and the number of APIs we manage have increased."
"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."

Valuable Features

"It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"In terms of scalability, I haven't encountered any issues with API Gateway. We've significantly increased our traffic from hitting it once or twice a minute to now hitting it ten to fifteen times within a minute. In an hour, we're receiving hundreds of hits. So, it's performing excellently."
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."

Room For Improvement

"Their support services come at a considerable cost, leaving room for improvement."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"When working with XML payloads, there can be issues due to the lack of a seamless connection between API Gateway and Lambda functions."

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Amazon API Gateway is the #3 ranked solution in top API Management tools. PeerSpot users give Amazon API Gateway an average rating of 8.6 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 70% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 16% of all views.

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