Amazon API Gateway
In the world of fast-paced integrations, APIs are a major element in establishing connectivity with systems and laying the foundation for reusable integration endpoints. Amazon API Gateway is important to achieve modern architecture deployment towards digital transformation and delivers the true cloud promise. At KnackForge we help customers create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure their APIs at any scale.
Being easily configurable, Amazon API Gateway is flexible enough to accommodate your specific API design using modern software development principles. KnackForge can help design or migrate legacy applications to a scalable, cost-effective serverless architecture.
API Gateway enables real-time two-way communication for applications using REST or WebSocket APIs. Amazon API Gateway helps build secure and scalable APIs swiftly, with various types of architectures. It also helps to build an application with minimal latency and maximum functionality.
API Types
HTTP APIS
HTTP APIs enable you to build RESTful APIs with lower latency and lower cost than REST APIs. HTTP APIs are the ideal choice for building APIs that only require API proxy functionality.
Restful APIs
REST APIs and HTTP APIs are both products of RESTful API. REST APIs support more features than HTTP APIs, while HTTP APIs are designed with the least features so that they can be offered at a lower price.
Application Integration
A WebSocket API in API Gateway is an amalgamation of WebSocket routes that are integrated with backend HTTP endpoints, Lambda functions, or other AWS services.
How API Gateway Works
The diagram below shows the API Gateway architecture.
This diagram illustrates how the APIs you build in Amazon API Gateway provides you with an integrated and consistent developer experience for creating AWS serverless applications. Hundreds of thousands of API requests can be collected and processed simultaneously by API Gateway. These functions include traffic management, authorization, access control, monitoring, and API version management.
API Gateway acts as a “front door” for apps to access data, business logic, or functionality from your backend services, such as workloads running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), code running on AWS Lambda, any web application, or real-time communication applications.
Features of Amazon API Gateway
Metering
API Gateway helps you manage the ecosystem of third-party developers accessing your APIs.
Security
API Gateway provides you with various tools to authorize access to your APIs and control service operation access.
Resiliency
API Gateway helps you manage traffic with throttling so that backend processes can withstand traffic surges.
Operations Monitoring
After an API is published and in use, API Gateway offers you a metrics dashboard to track calls to your services.
Lifecycle Management
With API Gateway you can run multiple versions of the same API simultaneously so that applications can continue to call previous API versions even after the latest versions are published.
How You Benefit From Amazon API Gateway
Low Costs
Like any other service part of the AWS Cloud, with Amazon API Gateway you pay only for the calls made to your APIs and data transfer out.
Scalability
With Amazon CloudFront integration, API Gateway permits you to take advantage of the worldwide network of edge locations to provide your end-users with the lowest possible latency for API requests and responses.
Serverless Architecture
In addition, when combined with Lambda, Amazon API Gateway allows you to create completely serverless APIs.
Easy Monitoring
After your API is deployed, Amazon API Gateway provides you with a dashboard to visually monitor calls to your services using Amazon CloudWatch, where you can see performance metrics and information on API calls, data latency, and error rates.
Efficient API Development
Amazon API Gateway allows you to simultaneously run multiple versions of the same API, allowing you to quickly iterate, test, and release new versions.
Flexible Security Controls
You can authorize access to your APIs with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Amazon Cognito. API Gateway can also help you check incoming requests by running a Lambda authorizer on Lambda AWS.
Why KnackForge?
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Aws Partner
As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner, our certified professionals can help build secure and scalable APIs rapidly, with a variety of different types of architectures
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Trusted Delivery Method
KnackForge offers extremely transparent project management structures to track updates on development.
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Innovative Solutions
Our team of AWS Certified experts helps modernize and unleash the data and assets in your legacy applications by adopting an API approach and leveraging tooling like API Gateway to open your organization to new business models, increased agility, and security at scale.
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Expertise
Our Cloud Architects are experts in Amazon API Gateway which is one of many Amazon services we excel at to help our clients launch new services faster as they scale and grow.