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“Reliable API management on AWS but requires effort to debug and manage costs.”
“Amazon API Gateway Provides Essential Features But Lacks Unique Differentiating Factors”
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.
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It works very well with AWS Lambda and other AWS services we already use. Scaling is handled automatically,so we don't need to worry about traffic spikes. Security options like IAM and API keys are easy to configure once understood
Within a few clicks, you can have a fully configured API, and you only get charged for what you use. It's intuitive and simple.
1. Very easy to provision and invoke 2. Extremely inexpensive 3. No data losses 4. Very minimal latency
Error messages are not always clear, which makes debugging harder. Pricing can become confusing when API usage increases. Initial setup took time since AWS has a learning curve.
While the pay per use model makes it easy to start and great for small companies, scaling up increases the cost more than you'd expect. On top of some other unexpected complexities and being locked in to AWS, the product is easy to start but requires careful consideration before committing long term.
1. Connection can be open only for 10mins without a heartbeat ping 2. Have seen some cold start issues sometimes 3. The payload is visible from the developer console of the frontend so have to double think what can be sent as everything is exposed
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- IT Associate50M-1B USDSoftwareReview Source
Reliable API management on AWS but requires effort to debug and manage costs.
I have used Amazon API Gateway as part of my day-to-day work for exposing backend APIs integrated with AWS Lambda. It has worked reliably in production and reduced the need to manage servers. Most of our APIs were deployed without major issues, though troubleshooting request mappings sometimes took extra effort. - Security Analyst50M-1B USDSoftwareReview Source
Amazon API Gateway Provides Essential Features But Lacks Unique Differentiating Factors
Amazon API Gateway offers a smooth experience for developing your APIs, offering all of the features you would expect, but nothing to set it apart. - Data Analyst1B-10B USDManufacturingReview Source
Websocket APIs Enable Seamless Streaming With Minimal Latency and Easy Provisioning
Our company is developing an internal AI platform and we are using websocket APIs to connect to serverless compute. This service was very easy to provision and invoke from our typescript frontend. It allows for seamless streaming of chunks with no data losses seen as of now - Software Developer<50M USDBankingReview Source
API Gateway Integrates Well but Faces UI Challenges in Deployment and CORS
API Gateway has provided a reliable, safe, and efficient way of sending requests to Lambda functions within my Amplify gen 1 project - SOFTWARE DEVELOPER<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
Secure Cornerstone of Modern Serverless Architecture
So overall it's essential for serverless microservices. Its deep integration with Lambda and its scalability has improved my development & deployment cycles.