Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. It acts as the front door for applications to access backend services, supporting REST APIs, HTTP APIs, and WebSocket APIs with built-in traffic management, authorization, monitoring, and API version management. API Gateway integrates natively with AWS Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFront, IAM, and Cognito for comprehensive serverless and secure API deployment.
APIs
Amazon API Gateway V1 (REST)
The API Gateway V1 control plane API is used to create, deploy, and manage REST APIs in Amazon API Gateway. It exposes resources for RestApis, Resources, Methods, Stages, Deploy...
Amazon API Gateway V2 (HTTP and WebSocket)
The API Gateway V2 control plane API is used to create, deploy, and manage HTTP APIs and WebSocket APIs in Amazon API Gateway. It provides resources for Apis, Routes, Integratio...
Amazon API Gateway Management API
The API Gateway Management API allows backend services to send messages to connected clients of a deployed WebSocket API and to disconnect clients. Requests are made against the...
Capabilities
Amazon API Gateway API Management Workflow
Unified workflow capability for API platform engineers and developers to create, configure, deploy, and monitor REST and HTTP APIs in Amazon API Gateway. Combines V1 REST APIs, ...
Run with NaftikoFeatures
Create, deploy, and manage REST APIs with full lifecycle control including stages, deployments, and versioning.
Build lightweight HTTP APIs optimized for serverless workloads at up to 71% lower cost than REST APIs.
Enable real-time bidirectional communication for chat platforms, streaming dashboards, and live applications.
Handle hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls with built-in throttling and request validation.
Supports IAM policies, Lambda authorizers, Amazon Cognito user pools, and OAuth2/OIDC for API access control.
Integration with CloudWatch metrics, access logging, and CloudTrail for full API observability.
Map APIs to branded custom domains with TLS certificates managed through AWS Certificate Manager.
Safely roll out API changes using canary deployment stages with configurable traffic splitting.
Protect APIs against common web exploits and DDoS attacks using AWS Web Application Firewall.
Automatically generate client SDKs for deployed APIs in multiple programming languages.
Reduce backend load and improve response times with configurable response caching at the stage level.
Leverage Amazon CloudFront edge locations for global low-latency API distribution.
Use Cases
Build fully serverless APIs with API Gateway as the front door and AWS Lambda as the backend compute layer.
Consolidate access to multiple microservices behind a single API endpoint with routing and load balancing.
Enable chat apps, collaborative tools, and live dashboards using WebSocket APIs for persistent bidirectional connections.
Create secure, scalable REST and HTTP APIs for mobile and web front-ends with Cognito authentication.
Expose existing on-premises or EC2-hosted services as modern REST APIs without rewriting backend logic.
Aggregate and normalize third-party APIs behind a consistent API surface with transformation and mapping.
Integrations
Invoke Lambda functions as API backends for fully serverless request handling.
Authenticate and authorize API requests using Cognito user pools and identity pools.
Monitor API performance metrics, error rates, and latency with CloudWatch dashboards and alarms.
Audit all API Gateway management API calls for compliance and security monitoring.
Distribute APIs globally through CloudFront edge locations for reduced latency.
Apply web application firewall rules to protect APIs from malicious traffic.
Trace requests end-to-end through API Gateway and backend services for performance analysis.
Control API access using IAM policies and resource-based policies for fine-grained authorization.
Provision and manage TLS certificates for custom domain names on API Gateway.
Create private APIs accessible only within a VPC using VPC endpoint integration.