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Amazon API Gateway

byAmazon Web Services (AWS)
in
4.5
2025
Market Presence: API Management, API Generation Software

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.

Amazon API Gateway Pricing

Amazon API Gateway software uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on the number of API calls received and the amount of data transferred out. Pricing structure covers features such as REST API, HTTP API, and WebSocket API, with costs varying according to usage levels and selected API type. Additional charges may apply for enhanced security, caching, and private endpoints. No upfront fees or minimum commitments are required for usage.

Overall experience with Amazon API Gateway

IT Associate
50M - 250M USD, Software
FAVORABLE

“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.
ENGINEER
50M - 250M USD, Banking
CRITICAL

“API gateway limitations ”

3.0
Dec 4, 2025
Its a reliable product , but have limitations as we grow beyond a reverse proxy with rate limits and tokens ,

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Gartner Peer Insights recognizes vendors who meet or exceed both the market average Overall Experience and the market average User Interest and Adoption score through a Customers’ Choice distinction.
2025
For Market:
API Management

About Company

Company Description

Updated 23rd December 2024

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

Updated 23rd December 2024
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

Like

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

Like

Easy to setup and deploy by. uploading API definition specs

Like

1. Very easy to provision and invoke 2. Extremely inexpensive 3. No data losses 4. Very minimal latency

Dislike

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.

Dislike

UI from aws console to create new path and resources is hard to operate. 10000 hard key limits is a bummer for growing organizations. applying rate limits per api is little harder and not having a built in fine grained monitoring per api per key is also a limitation

Dislike

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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Peer Discussions

Amazon API Gateway Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(926 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
56%
4 Star
39%
3 Star
5%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Integration & Deployment

4.6

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.5

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  • IT Associate
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    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.
  • Data Analyst
    1B-10B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Websocket APIs Enable Seamless Streaming With Minimal Latency and Easy Provisioning

    4.0
    Dec 1, 2025
    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 USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    API Gateway Integrates Well but Faces UI Challenges in Deployment and CORS

    4.0
    Nov 30, 2025
    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 USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Secure Cornerstone of Modern Serverless Architecture

    5.0
    Nov 14, 2025
    So overall it's essential for serverless microservices. Its deep integration with Lambda and its scalability has improved my development & deployment cycles.
  • Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Insurance (except health)
    Review Source

    Reliable Gateway Services Experience Minimal Downtime Across Public And Private Networks

    5.0
    Dec 1, 2025
    awi gateway services integrate smoothly with lamdas and other aws services making it easy to build server less backends quickly
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