Amazon API Gateways Advantages
Following are the advantages of using the API Gateway:
- It helps in efficient API development. Users can run multiple versions of the same API simultaneously with API Gateway, allowing users to quickly iterate, test, and release new versions.
- It provides the lowest latency possible latency (time taken by data to pass one point in the network to another) for API requests and responses.
- Users can easily monitor performance and information using the API Gateway dashboard.
- It is cost-saving at scale i.e user can decrease their costs as their API usage increases per region across their AWS accounts.
- It gives flexible security control by providing access to APIs with AWS Identity, Access Management (IAM), and Amazon Cognito.
- With API gateways, the coding efforts reduces which makes the application more efficient. Also, there is less chances of errors all at the same time.
- The API Gateway helps to encapsulates the internal structure of many application.
- In API Gateway, the client directly talks rather than invoking the specific service.
- Handling multiple API’s handling is much easy with API gateway.
Amazon Web Service – Introduction to API Gateway
Firstly, API stands for Application Program Interface. An API Gateway is a management tool that acts as an interface between users and microservices. The Amazon API Gateway is an AWS service that allows users to create, publish, secure, maintain and monitor APIs at any scale. You can create APIs in your client application and can also make them available to third-party developers. It is serverless. It supports HTTP, WebSocket, and REST APIs. API Gateway is a type of server that provides the service of API which is used to customize each client.
The Netflix API Gateway is the most popular example of API Gateway. Many e‑commerce site uses an API gateway to provide the endpoint for retrieving the details of all products from mobile clients with only a single request. So, This invokes many different services like the proper information of product, and product reviews and then combines the results.