--- title: Amazon API Gateway Reviews meta\_title: 'Amazon API Gateway Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 142 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Amazon API Gateway works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 142 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # Amazon API Gateway Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Amazon API Gateway but has limited features. Are you part of the Amazon API Gateway team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that enables developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. It acts as the "front door" for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from backend services. With API Gateway, you can build RESTful APIs and WebSocket APIs that support real-time two-way communication applications. The service is designed to handle the heavy lifting involved in processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including tasks such as traffic management, authorization and access control, throttling, monitoring, and API version management. API Gateway supports containerized and serverless workloads, as well as web applications, and offers developer portals to centrally discover, document, and govern your REST APIs across your AWS infrastructure. Key Features and Functionality: - Efficient API Development: Run multiple versions of the same API simultaneously, allowing for quick iteration, testing, and release of new versions. - Performance at Any Scale: Leverage a global network of edge locations using Amazon CloudFront to provide low-latency API requests and responses. - Cost Savings at Scale: Benefit from a tiered pricing model that reduces costs as API usage increases, with prices as low as $0.90 per million requests at the highest tier. - Easy Monitoring: Monitor performance metrics, including API calls, data latency, and error rates, through the API Gateway dashboard integrated with Amazon CloudWatch. - Flexible Security Controls: Authorize access to APIs using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Amazon Cognito, with support for OAuth tokens and custom authorization requirements via AWS Lambda authorizers. - RESTful API Options: Create RESTful APIs using HTTP APIs or REST APIs, with HTTP APIs being up to 71% cheaper than REST APIs for most use cases. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Amazon API Gateway simplifies the process of building and managing APIs by handling the complexities of API development, including traffic management, security, monitoring, and version control. It enables developers to focus on building applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. By providing a scalable, cost-effective, and secure platform for API management, API Gateway helps organizations efficiently connect their applications to backend services, ensuring high performance and reliability. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [Amazon API Gateway Community](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-api-gateway/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Rachel Richardson Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 10 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-api-gateway/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![MuleSoft Anypoint Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MuleSoft Anypoint Platform") MuleSoft Anypoint Platform 4.5/5(775) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mulesoft-anypoint-platform/reviews) [ ![Kong Konnect](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kong Konnect") Kong Konnect 4.4/5(327) ](https://www.g2.com/products/kong-inc-kong-konnect/reviews) [ ![Boomi](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Boomi") Boomi 4.4/5(506) ](https://www.g2.com/products/boomi/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-api-gateway/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 142 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Amazon API Gateway Integrations (6) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. 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MD Manjeet D. Area Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/16/2025 "Seamless AWS Integration with Fully Managed Service" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway? Completely managed service with easy integration with AWS Services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway? Completely managed service with easy integration with AWS Servcies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you? Manage APIs at a scale Great security and access control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite AM Abdul M. Senior Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/13/2024 ""Amazon API Gateway: Capabilities and Challenges"" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway? It has flexiblity to support different types of api's and also very good automatic scaling for balancing load.It is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway? Cost plays a important role in business, i fell like its cost is high because of its complex pricing.Cost is the only issue which i dislike about this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you? Amazon API gateway solves problem of scaling of API traffic during peak load without affecting performace and security features for securing api's.These all helps user to perform secure and efficient communication between api's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Chaitanya A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Chaitanya A.") CA Chaitanya A. Senior Software Developer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/22/2024 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Amazon API Gateway is the best API integration services for the AWS" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway? CROS policy to apply on the API and connect with the different AWS services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway? The time to setup the Amazon API Gateway is higher and bit complication. Sometimes we get the exception error. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you? For building the webapp and connecting the frontend to the backend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Thomas B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Thomas B.") TB Thomas B. Backend Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/14/2024 "The easiest way to serve at scale, securely and in a well monitored way" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway? So simple to integrate, a lot of features out of the box. Integrate well with other AWS services. Seamless implemntation for lambda functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway? Some call metrics aren't specific enough and we can't add condition of count metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you? Serving API across the web (mostly to AWS Lambda) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/5/2023 "Very useful and great service for managing APIs" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway? The ease of use and integration with other services on AWS It is very easy to implement, no complicted understanding is required. AWS support is quite well versed and can help the customers all the time, we just have to raise a support ticket and reach out to them I use this service day in day out, everyday. It's one of core component of infrastructure we handle API Gateway provides multiple features from connecting to other AWS services, External endpoints, internal endpoints via VPC links, connectivity with Network Load Balancers, Testing within API Gateway, logging, monitoring. It's a pretty well versed service in itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway? Management of APIs is quite hectic if there is a long list of APIs. Especially, when API's are connecting to multiple different AWS services/Endpoints. Using Swagger/Open API reduces the effort a little bit. Although you will still have to manage a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you? It solves the problem of integrating our core components within the system via APIs. It helps us connect our systems to Lambdas, Loadbalancers, other internal endpoints. Which is quite difficult to manage with a server based API system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Adarsh M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Adarsh M.") AM Adarsh M. SDE 2 Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/26/2023 "API gateway is becoming an unavoidable resource" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway? API gateway comes withs a lot of benefits around efficiently managing your API's integration, authentication and traffic. API gateway let's you host your API's using REST HTTP or GraphQL, it provides the benefit of defining resources and it's corresponding stages. Resource can be tested individually using AWS console. It provides integration with many AWS services out of the box, like AWS Lambda, VPC Link to connect to any endpoint privately etc. It's helps to generate API'S using the spec Rest specifications from code or directly from swagger json or XML schemas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway? It's VTL language for any inflight transformation is difficult to understand, moreover http is released with a limited set of fearures Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you? We are solving multiple problems using apigw which includes API management, API auto generation using spec rest and CDK . Managing api authentication using sig4. Using it as an AWS SDK for exposing as a SAAS product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ashish R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ashish R.") AR Ashish R. Software Engineer 2 Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/22/2023 "Scale your API faster with AWS security." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway? I Started using Amazon API gateway because of it's reliablity and flexibility and most import it is fully secure by AWS security. You dont have take care of deployement and latency is also low. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway? Things that i don't like about the Amazon API Gateway is that it support very limited protocols like http or https. Above all it's pricing model is little complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you? Api managerment and Api generation become very easy. I was using this monitoring and analytics. I was measuring the API performance and trouble shooting the issue efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/28/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Daniel R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Daniel R.") DR Daniel R. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/14/2023 "The best tool for manage APIs" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway? Managing multiple APIs in a single environment is great, being able to publish and edit is easy, the cost is lower compared to some other similar services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway? All requests and responses must go through the gateway, they increase the latency of each call, but it's not much, it's manageable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you? Manage multiple APIs in the same environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Suheb G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Suheb G.") SG Suheb G. Devops Engineer Retail Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/20/2023 "API gateway provide wide range of integrity with other aws tools with security." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway? We can integrate easily api gateway with other tools like lambda, sns, sqs, and other security tolls on aws. it is fast and highly available service provided by aws. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway? the service is has limitations that everything should be in same region. it can not integrate with other region resourses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you? we are running serverless application on cloud where we are getting huge benefits of api gateway, we running ecommerce application where we are pushing data of products everytime using api gateway and lambda Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/6/2023 "Streamlined but flexible cloud API management" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway? Amazon API Gateway makes it easy to manage cloud-based APIs and functions. Integrating with internal AWS features as well as external sources is well-designed and user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway? API Gateway does a decent job of making costs clear, but at times it's unclear exactly how much it will cost to run an API in production. There are also some features that require some special skillsets to understand well enough to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you? I have primarily run Amazon Lambda functions through API Gateway, and it has worked great for that purpose. It makes setting up API keys and managing API security, monitoring uptime, and providing URL access to functions very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Amazon API Gateway? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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