Amazon API Gateway Reviews

I use Amazon API Gateway for student data management of microservices to share between other systems. The solution is used between different applications in our organization. Amazon API Gateway is used along with Salesforce, Oracle, ServiceNow and SQL solutions. 

The simplicity of use is one of the vital features of Amazon API Gateway. It's a low-code solution that helps our company manage operations seamlessly. 

The solution should include change data capture (CDC) features that will help reduce workload. The aforementioned feature can be introduced as a mini plug-in or additional license. 

 In future versions of the product, there can be automated integration capabilities for applications through AI. 

I have been using Amazon API Gateway since 2016. 

Amazon API Gateway is a highly stable solution. 

At our company, we had some issues with scaling initially, but that was resolved soon enough. Amazon API Gateway exhibits satisfying scalability. Our organization never faced any issues with the performance and scalability of the solution. The first two or three weeks post-adoption, we had some learning issues in the company. After fine-tuning certain aspects and updating the query optimization in the solution, we never faced any issues in our company. 

As our company had to migrate from a Microsoft environment and remove Informatica as the middleware, the introduction of microservices and the initial setup process were a bit difficult. In our company, it took us initially a month to setup the environment and configure the code for Amazon API Gateway.

After the solution was deployed into the CI/CD pipeline, we fine-tuned it in our company for a year. This was necessary because new applications and processes were added. 

Presently, our company team is experienced enough to deploy the solution in one or two days. When we first installed the solution around 2015 in our organization, there wasn't much information available about the product or the setup process. After deploying Amazon API Gateway, our company does not need to maintain the solution.

Our company website uses most of the data coming through the solution, so there are more than 200,000 end users of the solution per month. Some portions of the total data arrive from the backend systems and other additional applications, such as student services.

There are 35,000 students connected to our company, so they can be considered as end users of the solution too. Overall, I would say there are more than 400,000 users of Amazon API Gateway in our organization through mobile app access. 

Our company is able to realize an ROI using Amazon API Gateway for application management. 

Azure products are more cost-effective than AWS solutions. 

AWS is the pioneer for gateway solutions. But with tools like Azure API Management and Azure Active Directory, Microsoft has been able to gain a lot of traction, AWS needs to gain an edge with additional features to beat Microsoft as a competitor. In my company, Azure products are used much more than AWS solutions. I have witnessed, in recent times, large companies migrate towards Azure from AWS. 

For API management, the serverless Lambda in the tool is the most used feature from Amazon API Gateway. The aforementioned feature is quite easy to use and integrate in a minimal team structure and no knowledge of Dot.Net and SQL is required. Using the Lambda feature, our company team could develop certain services within two weeks. 

Authorization and access control features of Amazon API Gateway meet the security needs of our organization. At our organization, we needed to make some customizations such as both-end encryption for data security. The environment and provisioning capabilities are already present in a simplified format in Amazon API Gateway.

I would definitely recommend Amazon API Gateway to other users, I am able to design solutions completely using the tool. Some organizations don't prefer to work with multi-vendor products, and some customers might be already too habituated to the Azure environment products such as Azure Dynamics and ERP solutions due to the extensive features. I would overall rate Amazon API Gateway a nine out of ten. 

We use Amazon API Gateway for some solutions we have integrated with ServiceNow. Some operations need to be done with the help of Amazon API Gateway. If API Gateway's path is available, we can easily integrate it with other solutions.

Amazon API Gateway is a very fast solution.

The solution has a major limitation compared to Google Cloud. Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function. API Gateway can be directly integrated with the Lambda function, and a response from the Lambda function must be obtained within 30 seconds.

I have been using Amazon API Gateway for five years.

I am satisfied with the solution’s stability.

We are using the solution for three to four projects by big clients.

I am satisfied with the solution’s technical support.

It is easy to install because we use a third-party tool called Serverless to define the Amazon API Gateway path. We are integrating the API gateway with the Lambda proxy on the back end. All the things are written in the Serverless file in YAML format. We are using Serverless to deploy on the cloud automatically.

All authentication mechanisms, like the access key and secret key, can be configured in the corresponding machine. It will then be authenticated against the access key and security key, and it will be automatically deployed on that particular account.

The solution's pricing is cheap and based on the number of requests coming to Amazon API Gateway.

Since the deployment should be automatic, it's better to use the Serverless tool to deploy the solution. Otherwise, you can use Terraform. Manually creating something will be a problem. It is easy for somebody to learn to use API Gateway for the first time. When we integrate Amazon API Gateway with any other service like Lambda, there will be a log associated with it, which you can find out.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

I use the solution in my company to develop AWS Lambda services. My company uses Amazon API Gateway to expose AWS Lambda functions and explore our APIs. I use the product to manage microservices.

As a tool, Amazon API gateway works well. I believe that there could be more features associated with analytics since it is an area where the product lacks. If it is possible to get analytics automatically from Amazon API Gateway, it would be a great feature or add-on.

I have been using Amazon API Gateway for four years. I use the solution as a customer.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

It is a pretty scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I have not experienced or seen the product going down or responding late.

It takes time for me to get in touch with the support team and for them to respond to my queries. The support team does help once I am able to get in touch with them. I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.

Positive

I rate the deployment phase as two on a scale of one to ten, where one means that it is an easy process while ten means it is a difficult phase.

The solution can be deployed in ten to fifteen minutes.

Based on whatever documentation I had seen related to the pricing part of the product in our company, I feel that the price of the product is decent. I rate the tool's price as seven on a scale of one to ten, where one means low price and ten means high price. There is a need to make early payments towards the licensing charges attached to the product. My company has an entire suite of products containing AWS products.

Amazon API Gateway serves as a key component that works effectively in our company's serverless architecture. My company uses the product to ensure that we do not expose AWS Lambda to the outside world. In our company, we also use the product's services to protect the API calls.

Request, rate limit, and response validation are some of the most crucial features in API development, deployment, and management. Ease of development and areas involving AWS CodePipeline are also some of the important features attached to Amazon API Gateway.

The API caching feature was very effective in improving our company's API performance. The response has always been good whenever we have used the product's API caching feature in our company. Whenever we need something less sensitive, we prefer to use the tool's API caching feature.

In terms of security features, our company uses API keys and tokens for client credentials flow so that we can authenticate the calls to Amazon API Gateway. There are no concerns about the tool's security features.

The product is easy to maintain. My company hasn't researched the need for multi-region maintenance. When it comes to the multi-region maintenance phase, there could be some complexities involved. In my experience, the maintenance of the product is easy. One person is good enough to maintain the product.

Integrating Amazon API Gateway with other services or products is very easy, especially with the other AWS services or products I use. In general, I find the product's integration capabilities to be easy and straightforward.

If you want to integrate any of the services within AWS and expose your data, Amazon API Gateway is a good way to do it. I definitely recommend others use AWS Serverless Computing and Amazon API Gateway together.

I rate the overall tool a ten out of ten.

We use Amazon API Gateway to expose our back end to the front end.

The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end. We can use the solution to authenticate a request. It has a time out of 30 seconds, wherein it will show time out if any request takes more than 30 seconds.

We can create many sub-resources in a single resource. Instead of creating five resources for five APIs, we can create five sub-resources in only one resource. I love working with Amazon API Gateway because it is very user-friendly.

I faced issues with the timeout because some machine-learning scripts would take more than 30 seconds. Since the first invocation of AWS Lambda takes more than 30 seconds because of Lambda's cold start, Amazon API Gateway blocks that resource, thereby aborting the invocation.

I have been using Amazon API Gateway for two years.

Amazon API Gateway is a highly stable product.

More than ten people are using the solution in our organization.

The solution’s technical support is good.

Amazon API Gateway is a very cheaply priced product.

It is very easy for a beginner to learn to use Amazon API Gateway and to create some resources manually. You can download one CDK script to create that same resource in any other environment a second time.

Amazon API Gateway is a serverless product. We don't need to manage servers. We only need to create the resources that we need to create. It is a completely deployed product. We create our AWS account, and we can create APIs directly. We don't need to worry about servers.

Setting up the authorization and authentication mechanism with Amazon API Gateway is very easy and takes only half an hour. We are actively migrating from on-premises to AWS or any other cloud. We will have a very big use case for Amazon API Gateway in the future.

You should be very specific with the configuration if you are a new user. Initially, you should have a very simple configuration and not use a proxy. If you have a use case to expose the Amazon API gateway to any front-end resources, you have to allow CORS and set headers. Be specific with the headers and CORS configuration, and don't make it complex. Don't jump directly into advanced configuration.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Our clients have specific use cases. They require a gateway that performs well and can handle around three hundred requests per quarter.

It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings. This includes services such as cloud monitoring tools, user connections, and the essential components required for API services. The gateway, in conjunction with other interconnected services, facilitates smooth operations. It covers aspects like cloud monitoring, user authentication through cloud sign-ins, and more. In my experience, as a service that we use extensively, it acts as a master tool, offering easy configuration and excellent integration capabilities with third-party services.

It is somewhat costly, particularly when it introduces server-related features, which are often scheduled on our end. Their support services come at a considerable cost, leaving room for improvement.

I have been working with it for over five years.

The stability is highly guaranteed, as AWS itself provides the cloud service with a reliability of 99.99%. This translates to a maximum of two hours of downtime annually, making it an exceptionally stable platform. I would rate it nine out of ten.

I would rate the scalability nine out of ten. I haven't observed any significant issues indicating a lack of scalability, as it can be efficiently managed through configurations. Our clientele primarily consists of enterprise customers.

Although they deliver high-quality services, the technical support comes at a significant cost. I would rate it six out of ten.

Neutral

The initial setup is somewhat complex and I would rate it seven out of ten. The main challenges stem from the intricacies of subnets and the overall plan in place.

The deployment time is contingent on the other services we provide, the features we utilize, and the consultants involved. The duration of this process is influenced by the integration aspects, typically spanning just a few weeks. We deploy using the POC process, adapting specifics to client preferences and performance needs. Clients can choose Docker, Kubernetes, or Amazon API Gateway based on their interests and infrastructure requirements.

I would rate its pricing six out of ten.

Opting for the cloud is a swift decision, and once made, the process proceeds smoothly. The consensus is positive, with no apparent reluctance. However, a crucial point is the necessity for expertise, particularly in AWS. Without the right proficiency, the implementation might not proceed seamlessly. Overall, I would rate it eight out of ten.

We have all the calls to our servers through API Gateway. We use API Gateway at the front, and everything else is hidden behind the firewall. API Gateway routes calls to our servers. We use API Gateway for our calling solutions.

API Gateway is out of the box and works well with Amazon products. It handles security and other headaches, keeping our database and servers secure. Moreover, it's easy to integrate with Amazon products.

API Gateway could improve by allowing debugging capabilities, particularly when dealing with high volumes. At scale, it is expensive, and latency sometimes occurs. Using CloudWatch for logging and debugging requires additional configuration, whereas other solutions like Kong might offer these out-of-the-box.

I have been using API Gateway for about three years.

I would rate the stability as eight out of ten. It is quite stable.

Scalability isn't the primary issue but rather performance at high volumes can cause latency.

Technical support is excellent, deserving a ten out of ten rating. There are no issues with support.

Positive

We used Kong in previous labs before using Amazon API Gateway.

Setup is straightforward, and it is easy to maintain.

Our ROI is close to fifty percent. API Gateway saves time and secures my infrastructure, allowing effective deployment.

API Gateway is pricey. I would rate the pricing as nine out of ten. It is expensive.

Besides Amazon API Gateway, we have used Kong Gateway, and we also utilize EC2 for other purposes.

The product rates at nine out of ten as an overall solution.

Our use case is we have some internal APIs that we need to expose to the outside world. Via API Gateway, we expose those APIs to the external world.

It is easy for integrations if it is deployed in AWS Services.

The setup is very simple. 

It is stable and reliable.

It can scale well.

We would like to see more UI-based monitoring.

I've been using API Gateway for around six months.

It's a stable, reliable product. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

We can scale the product. it's not a problem if we need to expand it. 

The solution was just recently deployed. We have about 1,000 new users on it. When were are fully operational, we will have about 10,000 users on the solution. We are still in the process of expanding usage. 

We've never had to reach out to technical support. Therefore, I cannot speak to how helpful or responsive they are. 

We also use Apigee from Google. 

We didn't switch from anything. This was a new requirement. Since all of our components are in AWS, we took the AWS API Gateway solution to make it easy for integration for all other AWS components.

The solution offers an easy initial setup. 

It takes two weeks to deploy the solution. 

We only need about two individuals to handle any maintenance tasks. We may need up to six people once we are fully up and running. We'll need one manager, two administrators, and two people for support.

We did the implementation in-house. We did not need outside assistance from consultants or integrators. We had people on our team that could do it.

We did evaluate other options before choosing this solution. 

I'd recommend the solution to other users and companies. If you are using AWS components, then it is a good product.

I'd rate the product eight out of ten.

My use case for Amazon API Gateway involves using it for backend APIs and mostly private API Gateways. We utilize it within the context of a microservices architecture. The front-end technology connects through the API Gateway to backend services running on Lambda, making the API Gateway an endpoint for reaching backend services.

Amazon API Gateway provides easy scalability and fast deployment, making it less time-consuming to spin up services. Its serverless technology allows our applications to scale seamlessly according to demand.

A most valuable feature of Amazon API Gateway is how quickly we can connect to backend services and have APIs accessible from anywhere. This flexibility supports our operations efficiently.

I'd appreciate improvements in the user interface to make it more understandable, especially for new AWS users. Documentation can be confusing at times, so more details on the connection between the API Gateway and backend services would be helpful. Additionally, a local version of the API Gateway would be beneficial for testing purposes without incurring extra costs.

I have been using Amazon API Gateway for almost two and a half years now.

Amazon API Gateway has proven to be very stable, with a stability rating of ten out of ten. The high stability ensures that we do not encounter workflow issues, which is critical for maintaining uninterrupted operations.

Regarding scalability, I would rate Amazon API Gateway at eight out of ten. Although we have not faced challenges, we have not tested scalability on a large scale either. In our typical use cases, scalability aligns with our expectations and requirements.

The support from AWS was adequate when we needed assistance, particularly during the setup of a private API Gateway. There was initial difficulty due to unclear documentation, but the AWS team's help was effective, even though it took some time to get the correct answers.

Neutral

The initial setup was moderately complex; I would rate it a six out of ten. Understanding the service's intricacies and integration with Lambda was the major challenge initially, but it became easier over time.

The deployment process typically involves only one person, which is myself. Maintenance does not require many people due to its serverless nature.

The pricing of Amazon API Gateway is cost-effective unless there is a very high volume of requests. I would rate the pricing as reasonable, giving it a score of five out of ten.

For newcomers to Amazon API Gateway, it's advisable to watch a few AWS videos to grasp how it works. The documentation can be difficult to follow initially, so supplementing it with external learning resources can provide a better understanding.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.