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AWS API Gateway
Fully managed service for creating, deploying, and managing APIs at any scale
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Scalability
very high
Performance
high
Learning Curve
moderate
Maturity
mature
Languages: Any (API Gateway service)
Architecture: cloud, api-gateway, rest, websocket
When to Use
- +Already on AWS
- +Serverless architecture
- +Need managed solution
- +Variable traffic
When Not to Use
- -Multi-cloud strategy
- -Need full control
- -Very high traffic (cost)
Strengths
- Fully managed
- Auto-scaling
- AWS integration
- Pay-per-use
- Built-in caching
Weaknesses
- AWS lock-in
- Cold starts with Lambda
- Limited customization
- Costs can escalate
Operations
Maintenance
low
Monitoring
low
Backup/Recovery
simple
Hosting: managed
Quick Facts
- Category
- API Gateway
- License
- commercial
- Pricing
- usage based (free tier)
- Community
- large
- Docs Quality
- good
- Trend
- stable
- Vendor Lock-in
- high
- Data Portability
- difficult
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
startupsmallmediumlargeenterprise
Use Cases
- Serverless APIs
- REST APIs
- WebSocket APIs
- API throttling
- Request transformation
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