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Amazon API Gateway Services: One Secure Front Door for Your APIs

For teams exposing services to partners, apps or customers: we design, secure and run your APIs on Amazon API Gateway, with authentication, throttling and monitoring in one place and releases automated through CI/CD.

  • API Gateway work for education, SaaS and enterprise clients
  • Secured with Amazon Cognito, Lambda authorizers and AWS WAF
  • AWS Service Delivery validation for Amazon API Gateway

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Amazon API Gateway services cover the design, security, deployment and monitoring of APIs on Amazon API Gateway, the AWS managed service that publishes REST, HTTP and WebSocket APIs and routes each request to a backend such as AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS or an on-premises system. HabileLabs, an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with the AWS Service Delivery validation for Amazon API Gateway, builds and runs these APIs for education, SaaS and enterprise teams.

Signs your APIs need a managed gateway

Teams usually come to us about their APIs when one of these starts to hurt:

  • Our API gateway is old, hard to change and slows down under heavy traffic
  • Public APIs are open with little control over who calls them or how often
  • Deployments, throttling and monitoring are done by hand for every API
  • Latency jumps or calls fail when traffic peaks
  • Connecting APIs to Lambda, containers or on-premises systems takes custom work each time

Amazon API Gateway handles each of these when it is designed and run well, and the design, the security and the automation around it are what we do.

What changes when your APIs run on Amazon API Gateway

What a managed gateway gives you, and the AWS capability behind each.

One place to control access

Amazon Cognito, Lambda authorizers and AWS WAF check every call for identity, role or token before it reaches a backend.

Capacity that follows traffic

API Gateway scales with request volume, and throttling and usage plans stop one noisy client from crowding out the rest.

Repeatable releases

CI/CD with AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild tests and promotes API versions, and AWS CloudFormation or Terraform keeps every stage configured the same.

Backends that can change

One gateway routes requests to AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS microservices or on-premises systems, so clients see the same API while backends are modernized.

Pay for requests, not servers

API Gateway is billed for the requests it handles and the data it transfers, so there is no gateway fleet to size, patch or pay for while idle.

Problems traced to their source

Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray and access logs show usage, latency and errors per API, so a slow call is traced to the backend responsible.

What our Amazon API Gateway services include

API work from design to monitoring, built so your team can keep it running.

API assessment and plan

A review of your existing APIs, modernization goals and integration points across systems, with a plan for what moves to API Gateway first.

API design and architecture

API models, routing and the choice of REST, HTTP or WebSocket APIs, with authentication designed for scale and security from the start.

Authentication and protection

Amazon Cognito, Lambda authorizers, AWS WAF, throttling and encryption configured for role-based and token-based access control.

Backend integration

APIs connected to AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS microservices, services backed by Amazon RDS and on-premises systems, with caching where it helps.

CI/CD and infrastructure as code

Pipelines on AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild for automated testing and version promotion, with AWS CloudFormation or Terraform for repeatable setups.

Monitoring and optimization

Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray and API Gateway access logs for usage, latency and errors, with regular tuning for cost, reliability and latency.

How an API Gateway project with us runs

Four stages, from the APIs you have today to a gateway your team can run.

1. Assess

We evaluate your existing APIs, set modernization goals and map integration points across systems and services.

2. Design

We define API models, routing and authentication, following AWS practice for scale and security.

3. Build

We implement the APIs, connect backends, set caching and throttling, and automate releases with CodePipeline and CodeBuild.

4. Optimize

We watch performance with CloudWatch and X-Ray and tune configuration for cost, reliability and latency.

Amazon API Gateway services: common questions

Amazon API Gateway is a managed AWS service for creating, publishing, securing and monitoring APIs. It accepts calls from apps and partners and passes them to backends such as AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS services or on-premises systems, handling authentication, throttling and logging along the way.

They usually cover an assessment of your current APIs, API design and routing, authentication with Amazon Cognito or Lambda authorizers, AWS WAF protection, backend integration, CI/CD and infrastructure as code, and monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray. We can also run the APIs for you after go-live.

REST APIs have the widest feature set, including API keys, usage plans and request validation. HTTP APIs are simpler and cost less for straightforward proxying to Lambda or HTTP backends. WebSocket APIs keep a two-way connection open for real-time features such as chat or live updates.

We authenticate callers with Amazon Cognito or Lambda authorizers, apply role-based or token-based access, add AWS WAF rules against common web attacks, throttle abusive traffic and encrypt data in transit. IAM, encryption and logging follow AWS practice from the first release.

AWS bills API Gateway for the requests it handles and the data it transfers out, so you pay for use rather than for gateway servers. Rates differ between REST, HTTP and WebSocket APIs and by region, and we estimate your cost from your traffic during the assessment.

Yes. API Gateway can route requests to backends in your data center over private connectivity, as well as to AWS Lambda and Amazon ECS. That lets you put one managed, secured API in front of older systems while you modernize them.

It depends on how many APIs you have, how they authenticate today and how many backends they touch. The assessment gives you an order of work and an estimate before anything changes.

Yes. We keep monitoring usage, latency and errors with CloudWatch and X-Ray, and tune caching, throttling and configuration for cost and reliability. Changes go through the same CI/CD pipeline, so each release is tested and repeatable.

Find out what putting your APIs behind API Gateway takes

Tell us which APIs you run, who calls them and what sits behind them. An AWS-certified architect will come back with an approach, the risks and a rough plan, whether or not we work together.

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  • 200+ AWS customer launches