G2

Atharva P.

Cloud BI Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/8/2026

"Fast, Secure Serverless APIs with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Integrations"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon API Gateway?

What I like most about Amazon API Gateway is how easily it lets you create, manage, and secure APIs without needing dedicated infrastructure. It integrates smoothly with other AWS services and supports REST APIs, HTTP APIs, and WebSocket APIs, which makes it a good fit for a wide range of application architectures.

Its serverless integration with Lambda is especially valuable because it enables teams to build highly scalable APIs without managing servers. I also appreciate how quickly you can stand up secure serverless APIs.

For example, rather than managing application servers, load balancers, SSL certificates, and scaling policies separately, API Gateway provides a managed front door that connects directly to Lambda, Step Functions, and other backend services. This helps speed up both development and deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon API Gateway?

In complex API architectures, request transformations, mapping templates, and custom authorization flows can be difficult to troubleshoot. To make debugging easier, monitoring and logging need to be set up correctly and kept consistent across the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon API Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon API Gateway helps address common API management, security, and scalability challenges.

In one project, we built a serverless document-processing platform where API Gateway exposed REST endpoints for document uploads and status tracking. Those APIs triggered Lambda functions that processed files stored in S3 and kicked off downstream workflows.

With this setup, we were able to deliver scalable APIs without provisioning web servers, which significantly reduced operational overhead.

In another use case, we exposed internal data services securely to frontend applications, while still enforcing authentication and rate limiting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.