Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can create an API that acts as a “front door” for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your back-end services, such as workloads running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), code running on AWS Lambda, or any Web application. Amazon API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management. Amazon API Gateway has no minimum fees or startup costs. You pay only for the API calls you receive and the amount of data transferred out.
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Create a Free AccountThe Amazon API Gateway free tier includes one million API calls per month for up to 12 months.
With Amazon API Gateway, you pay only for calls made to your APIs and data transfer out. There are no minimum fees or upfront commitments.
With Amazon CloudFront integration, API Gateway allows to you take advantage of the worldwide network of edge locations to provide your end users with the lowest possible latency for API requests and responses. Amazon API Gateway also helps you manage traffic through throttling, so that back-end operations can withstand traffic spikes. Additionally, Amazon API Gateway helps you improve the performance of your APIs by caching the output of API calls to avoid calling your backend systems unnecessarily.
After your API is deployed, Amazon API Gateway provides you with a dashboard to visually monitor calls to your services using Amazon CloudWatch, so you see performance metrics and information on API calls, data latency, and error rates.
Amazon API Gateway lets you simultaneously run multiple versions of the same API, allowing you to quickly iterate, test, and release new versions.
API Gateway provides you with tools to authorize access to your APIs and control service operation access. You can use AWS administration and security tools, such as AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Amazon Cognito, to authorize access to your APIs. Amazon API Gateway can verify signed API calls on your behalf using the same technology AWS uses for its own APIs. If you already use OAuth tokens or other authorization mechanism, Amazon API Gateway can forward your OAuth or OpenID Connect headers to your back end for verification.
With Amazon API Gateway, you can create modern resource based APIs, and then use the dynamic and flexible data transformation capabilities to generate the requests in the language your target services expect. API Gateway also helps you protect your existing services by setting throttling rules to avoid overwhelming your back-end infrastructure during unpredictable traffic spikes.
Amazon API Gateway tightly integrates with AWS Lambda to allow you to create completely server-less APIs. With Amazon API Gateway, you create REST APIs that your mobile and web applications can use to call publicly available AWS services through your code running in AWS Lambda. AWS Lambda runs your code on a high-availability compute infrastructure and performs all the heavy lifting and administration of your compute resources.
