Pricing of Amazon API Gateways (GW)
You pay for use only, i.e you pay for the API calls you receive and the amount of data transfer. There is an optional data caching charged at an hourly rate that varies based on the cache size you select.
Amazon also provides free tier services for up to 12 months, which includes:
- 1 million HTTP API calls
- 1 million REST API calls
- 1 million messages
- 750,000 connection minutes per month
Take a look at the below table for standard pricing of Amazon API Gateway:
Pricing for the API Calls | ||
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APIs | No. of requests per month | Price(per million) |
HTTP | First 300 million | $1.00 |
300+ million | $0.90 | |
REST | First 333 million | $3.50 |
Next 667 million | $2.80 | |
Next 19 billion | $2.38 | |
Over 20 billion | $1.51 | |
WebSocket | First 1 billion | $1.00 |
Over 1 billion | $0.80 |
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.
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