Amazon API Gateway Primary Use Case

Anup Karade - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at LTIMindtree

We mainly use these APIs for east-to-west communication within our internal system and partner collaboration. While most companies prefer tool-based API management for partner collaboration, for internal consumption, and integration between application insight, we tend to use cloud-native tools provided by AWS.

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Ajay Chouksey - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Data & ML Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We primarily use it for real-time use cases where we have used Lambda with the API Gateway. So, the backend is a Lambda server. We are implementing a serverless architecture with the API Gateway. 

We've implemented risk score models within the Lambda. Thus, whenever someone requires a risk assessment for a prospect in need of a loan, they access our Amazon API Gateway. In the backend, it triggers the Lambda service.

So, within the Lambda, our ML model predicts whether the customer falls into the high-risk or low-risk category. Then, it sends a response to our frontend application, which is an Android-based application.

Currently, our use cases are relatively simple. Even though we host ten different models, the use cases are similar. We have configured the API gateway for various URLs and receive hits from different services like tractors, two-wheelers, and mobiles. 

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VenkatRaju - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at Levi Strauss & Co.

We primarily use the solution as an API gateway. The APIs are managed by serverless applications. It's an API gateway from Layer 7.

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Phani Sundar Mandarapu - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at Collins Aerospace

I use the solution in my company to develop AWS Lambda services. My company uses Amazon API Gateway to expose AWS Lambda functions and explore our APIs. I use the product to manage microservices.

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Jithin Scaria - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Professional I-Software Engineer Lead at Capgemini

We use Amazon API Gateway for some solutions we have integrated with ServiceNow. Some operations need to be done with the help of Amazon API Gateway. If API Gateway's path is available, we can easily integrate it with other solutions.

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Luis FernandoDos Santos - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer 4 at WEX Inc. (NYSE: WEX)

We use Amazon API Gateway to expose some APIs. I worked for three companies that mostly used API Gateway for exposed services and complex use cases like expose headers. The solution is used to personalize responses, provide more simulations, and facilitate communication between the services. The solution is also used to direct some requests to Lambda and ECS.

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Dinesh Agrawalla - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at Abcl

All of my APIs and microservices are behind the Amazon API Gateway. When someone sends a request to the API Gateway, it performs validation and then forwards it to the appropriate microservice. Several microservices, such as payment services, deposit services, and account services, are all behind the API Gateway.

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Prasanth MG - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Readyly

We use the solution as a gateway between the front-end and the back-end. It helps us setup proper authentication and provides a neat and easily configurable view of our application's public interface.

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Atal Upadhyay - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP at MIDDAY INFOMEDIA LIMITED

So we are using Amazon API Gateway in our application. It allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them.

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AR
Deputy Manager - Radio Frequency Planning at 0

I use the solution for API management. I use Amazon API Gateway for SQL Server Stretch Database.

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Venkataraju Nandam - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at SID GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LLC

Our clients have specific use cases. They require a gateway that performs well and can handle around three hundred requests per quarter.

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RafiAhmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at 720 Sieg IT Solutions Inc

The gateway is the first layer of protection. When traffic comes in, we need to complete a couple of validation steps such as adding a rate limit. We then scan documents for viruses and upload them. All information and data needs to be sanitized before it enters a private domain and we use this solution to do this.

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AN
Solution Architect at EPAM Systems

I've primarily used the solution to call Lambda functions and embrace new features that they introduce. My role doesn't require me to explore the full range of API Gateway features, but rather simpler ones like repair gateway functions as and when required. Additionally, in relation to AWS Step Functions, there are key distinctions between instant and long-life step functions that should be highlighted. It isn’t very transparent and useful for me. Instant step functions are suitable for tasks that can be completed within around ten minutes, whereas long-lived ones can endure for extended periods by saving their states between steps.

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Serg Anonymous - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Yukon

I use it to expose API. So, I primarily use it for publishing our APIs and implementing rate limiting.

We mainly use it within our internal services.

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AnkurGupta7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at Evon Technologies Pvt

We are integrating the Amazon API Gateway for one of our projects in phase four. We also use our built-in agent assist system to connect the customer to the backend. It handles and processes API calls for the application's responses.

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DD
Solutions Architect at a non-tech company with 51-200 employees

We primarily utilize Amazon API Gateway to expose our APIs externally and enhance security by implementing components such as input validation, filtering, and ensuring secure exposure through the gateway.

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SatyajitTarai - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical architect at STCS

Our use case is we have some internal APIs that we need to expose to the outside world. Via API Gateway, we expose those APIs to the external world.

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VR
Cloud Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

When you have multiple API applications, Amazon API Gateway can serve as both your front end and your middleware. When you have microservices, for example, you can run Amazon API Gateway with Kubernetes. It can also build out the requests.

We also have the serverless application being hosted in Lambda. Lambda is an AWS resource that we use Amazon API Gateway with when we have received a request. It redirects the traffic to that particular request.

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MinhTran2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at Kyanon Digital

I use the solution in my company for microservices architecture. I have five years of experience with Amazon and Tenable. I see many services offered by Amazon.

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Daniel Boadzie - PeerSpot reviewer
Machine Learning Specialist at Hubtel

We put the APIs behind an API gateway. Before the users hit the API, they must go through the Amazon API Gateway. We can control how people use our APIs. We use the tool to manage the entire API process.

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SM
SAP Successfactors Consultant at Innoux Solutions IT Pvt ltd

We integrated Amazon API Gateway with their microservices architecture using GitHub and Java.

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PrinceKumar2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Cloud Engineer at Rishabh Software

We use Amazon API Gateway to expose our back end to the front end.

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NM
Digital Architecture Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I use AWS API Management and Mulesoft because I work on different solutions and I am in a different layer, because I most focused on backend solutions. I have participated in some projects using these tools but I am not a developer or an expert.

We have designed and implemented RESTful API's. For example, based on Microservices with Spring Boot and AKS or OpenShift.

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DT
Software Development Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We use Amazon API Gateway to compliment or to put a security facade on top of your current APIs.

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IL
Software architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

I use this solution for mobile app development. It is the API gateway for my backend.

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Namrata G - PeerSpot reviewer
Independent Technology Consultant - Financial Softwares at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We're using Amazon API Gateway for API management.

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RC
Technical Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We use it for normal API purposes.

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RB
Engineer at a renewables & environment company with 501-1,000 employees

We use the solution to protect APIs from malicious attacks.

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PC
Director and Information Technology Architect at Fusion Professionals

We primarily use this solution for exposing internal data sources to the internet.

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Serg Anonymous - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Yukon

We use an API from Amazon to assess our internal services in our VPC and to limit the access of certain users to API and to have an execution plan. Certain users have certain access to API calls that they could use to give them an assessed quota.

The solution is deployed on a private cloud.

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SS
Sr. Technology Specialist at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use it for API routing and managing traffic. These are managed authentications between the API and back to primary users. 

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Vishal  Devmurari - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at Paramatrix Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Our primary use case is a fully serverless architecture for the application.

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it_user1134261 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Architect at a retailer with 51-200 employees

We primarily use the solution for providing controlled access to our services running within Amazon.

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JA
API Application Security Specialist

We are currently using this solution in a project that we are implementing for a public service organization. It is a content management system that will be able to do things like rate monitoring. The service will have good security and availability.

This is a cloud-based deployment with Lambda Integration.

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