Amazon API Gateway is AWS's managed service for creating, publishing, and securing REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs for teams building on AWS. It is a serverless, AWS-native gateway billed per call rather than a fixed monthly fee, with a 12-month introductory call allowance but no perpetual free tier. It provides request throttling for rate limiting and authorizers via IAM, Cognito, and Lambda for authentication, though it has no built-in developer portal. Founded in 2015, it carries SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS attestations. It is neither open-source nor self-hostable and fits teams operating within AWS.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2015
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
API gateway
- Free tier
- No
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Rate limiting
- Yes
- Auth management
- Yes
- Developer portal
- No