Ability to focus on the business part of the application and not have to worry about the scalability of the web servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

30-sec timeout which is a hard limit. It's not configurable at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Pay as go service

2. fully managed by AWS (scale & availability)

- easy to start with

- very granular controls Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- seems to have too many options which can get confusing for simple deployments

- API keys usage seems very convoluted

- deployment using SAM or cloud formation requires repetition for multiple methods on same resource Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I was able successfully to manage all APIs, and the cloud service was the best ive ever seen, give me functionalities that other services could never Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I found it very hard to navigate at times but overall it was good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This service is awesome. It's as easy and simple or complex as you want it to be. AWS gives you control to method and viewer responses/requests to handle the way you'd like. The best part is you can just proxy the entire request to a Lambda function. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it's a bit complex to work with if you don't know APIs or Swagger. Another downside is custom domain names cause the API to deploy to the edge which takes time to update during test stages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

API Gateway is easy to set up and well documentation, it provides very good performance, scalable and well integrates with other AWS service such as Cloud Watch, AIM, Lambda, NLB. Throttling for limit user access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

API Gateway could not connect to the backend which uses self-certificate, It does not support header with an underscore and limit CFN support. Do not suport 2way SSL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

API Gateway makes setting up and testing API endpoints quick and easy, and it integrates seamlessly with other AWS services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a little bit confusing to learn how to use API Gateway the first time, and there are some custom API rules that it doesn't handle well, or that I haven't figured out how to handle. Fortunately Lambda can handle those. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon API Gateway = Developers Dream

It's a fully managed service that makes it ideal for developers to easily and simply create, maintain, publish, and monitor secure API's. After working with clients for years who create their own API's but weren't sure of the best way to monitor and maintain them, someone from Gartner years ago mentioned this might be a solution worth exploring. This is literally drag and drop and point and click. The gateway handles ALL of the tasks involved with setting up API calls (literally all of the tasks) and costs are based on usage. That way, clients who make more calls pay more than those who make less calls. Love this!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of experience and knowledge can make for a rough learning curve and in speaking with other people who implemented the same technology, this seems to be consistent regardless of industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

API Gateway allows you to create in very few clicks (really it is super fast) an API for all your applications, and at different scales.

In my company, we have to provide different types of access to different features to our customers depending on their field of work so it is very useful for us to be able to create different APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much, it is very functional.

Maybe the way the application deals with too many REST calls to the backend (if you don't set specific limitations) is not optimal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do like that for simple cases and for low maintance I can skip the need to building a app/webserver. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My usecase was going to requiring HMAC signature validation for a signed requests. This isn't built in to the product but they offer a custom lambda authorizer. However, unless you manage to carefully read the docs you'll likey find out much later in your process that a custom lambda authorizer doesn't get the body of a request. This forced me to use a lambda proxy and to handle the proxying entirely within my lambda instead of allowing the gateway to be the proxy and my authorizer to be just a piece of middleware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

API Gateway provides a seamless integration between external environment such as mobile applications or web application and AWS back-end services such as RDS. The API Gateway integration with AWS Lambda service allows us to integrate our JS web application to an RDS background quickly. The Method Request, the Integration Request, and the Method Responses are easy to configure for different data types and data models. I don't have to learn the specific calls to RDS and write codes to perform the call and to process return data. I developed API via RESTful services. Test features saved me hours to debugging API codes and Postman. Instead of spending days to write the API from scratch, I configured the AWS API Gateway, integrated into my Lambda functions, and to RDS SQL queries in just a matter of hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The initial learning curve for AWS API Gateway can be high for casual developers like myself. The integration with the Lambda functions took time to be familar as it is a different development paradigm. It can be finicking at times. Luckily, AWS documentation and helpful videos are available to ease the transition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.