Name: Amazon API Gateway
Rating: 4.5 (948 reviews)

Overview

Product Information on Amazon API Gateway

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Amazon API Gateway?

Amazon API Gateway is a software that enables developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. The software allows for the management of REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs, supporting the connection of backend services such as AWS Lambda functions, web applications, or other AWS resources. It provides features such as traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management. Amazon API Gateway helps address the business need for scalable API management by facilitating consistent and secure interfaces for applications while enforcing usage limits and collecting analytics for operational insight.

Overall experience with Amazon API Gateway

It Security & Risk Management Associate

<50M USD, IT Services

FAVORABLE

“Amazon API Gateway: Secure API Management With Complexity in Large Deployments”

5.0

Mar 4, 2026

My overall experience with Amazon API gateway has been positive, particularly for building and managing secure, scalable APIs in cloud-native environments. The service integrates seamlessly within the broader AWS ecosystem, allowing us to quickly expose backend services while maintaining control over authentication, throttling and monitoring.

Security Analyst

500M - 1B USD, Software

CRITICAL

“Amazon API Gateway Provides Essential Features But Lacks Unique Differentiating Factors”

3.0

Jan 30, 2026

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.

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API Management

About Company

Company Description

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.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

2006

Head office location

Seattle, United States

Number of employees

10001+

Website

http://aws.amazon.com

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Amazon API Gateway Likes & Dislikes

What i appreciate the most is the tight integration with services such as AWS lambda, AWS Cloudwatch, and AWS identiy. The built-in support for authentication mechanisms, rate limiting, usage plan and API keys simplifies API security and traffic management.

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.

The platform is very simple and you do not need to manage your infrastructure, AWS can manage and scale up/down if you need it. Better performance and stronger security for services and applications. If you keep cost and performance monitored, you pay only for the resources that you have used.

The main challenge lies in pricing transparency and architectural complexity for larger deployments. Costs can increase quickly with high requests volumes, caching, or data transfer, making careful monitoring essential, especially for advanced routing, mapping templates and custom authorizer can be complex for new administrators.

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.

If you need to change provider or platform it can be complex, AWS native functions and products are not compatible with some different providers. If your environment grows too you can have some problems managing it if you don't have a professional team to manage and monitor it. If you make mistakes in the evaluation/design phase you could have big surprises in the costs.

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Amazon API Gateway: Secure API Management With Complexity in Large Deployments

It Associate

1B-10B USD

Transportation

Scalability and Security Noted As Strengths

Mar 5, 2026

Very powerful API's services of AWS, you can deploy, manage, scale-up/down all your services stored inside AWS. You can orchestrate your environment in each of its components, monitoring performance, cost and logging. You can integrate it with all AWS services like Lambda, EC2, DB, CloudWatch. The front-end/back-end has very strong security methods to limit access and protect your data. You pay in a pay-as-you-go format, so you pay only what you consume.

Business Development Associate

Software

The gold standard for scalable, secure and serverless API management

Mar 13, 2026

Amazon API Gateway has been a cornerstone of our serverless architecture. It provides a highly reliable and scalable entra point for our APIs, seamlessly connecting with AWS Lambda and Dynamo DB. The ability to handle authentication, throttling, and monitoring in a single managed service has significantly reduced our infrastructure overhead.

Operations Manager

Services (non-Government)

Serverless Backend Scaling Simplified Despite Complex API Gateway Configuration Issues

My overall experience with Amazon API Gateway has been highly positive. It allows us to securely expose our backend services and handle massive traffic spikes without any downtime. The tight integration with AWS Lambda is a huge advantage for our serverless architecture.

IT Associate

50M-1B USD

Reliable API management on AWS but requires effort to debug and manage costs.

4.0

Jan 6, 2026

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.