Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway handles the heavy lifting of building, deploying, and managing APIs within the AWS ecosystem. It acts as the front door for your backend services, routing requests and handling authentication without you needing to provision separate servers. This lets you expose application logic through RESTful or WebSocket interfaces while AWS manages the scaling and traffic flow automatically.
New AWS accounts get twelve months of free usage, which is ideal for prototyping or early-stage projects. Once that window closes, costs shift to a pay-per-use model starting at $0.25 per million minutes. This pricing structure is efficient for low-traffic apps but can become unpredictable for high-volume applications, requiring careful monitoring of request counts to keep expenses manageable.
- Free tier Yes
- Starting price from $0.2500 per 1M minutes
- Regions 15 · 6 continents
- SLA uptime 99.99%
- Compliance 13 certifications
- Provider health A
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- compute99.99%
- database99.99%
- networking99.99%
- storage99.99%
15 regions across 6 continents
- Africa
- Asia
- Europe
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
Pricing tiers 14
| Tier / Plan | Price | Unit | Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| USE1-ApiGatewayMinute | $0.2500 | per 1M minutes | us-east-1 |
| USE1-ApiGatewayMessage | $0.8000 | per 1M Messages | us-east-1 |
| USE1-ApiGatewayHttpRequest | $0.9000 | per 1M requests | us-east-1 |
| USE1-ApiGatewayRequest | $1.51 | per 1M requests | us-east-1 |
| USE1-ApiGatewayCacheUsage:0.5GB | $0.0200 | per hour | us-east-1 |
| USE1-ApiGatewayCacheUsage:1.55GB | $0.0380 | per hour | us-east-1 |
| USE1-ApiGatewayCacheUsage:6.05GB | $0.2000 | per hour | us-east-1 |
| USE1-ApiGatewayCacheUsage:13.5GB | $0.2500 | per hour | us-east-1 |
| USE1-ApiGatewayCacheUsage:28.4GB | $0.5000 | per hour | us-east-1 |
| USE1-ApiGatewayCacheUsage:58.2GB | $1.00 | per hour | us-east-1 |
| USE1-ApiGatewayCacheUsage:118GB | $1.90 | per hour | us-east-1 |
| USE1-ApiGatewayCacheUsage:237GB | $3.80 | per hour | us-east-1 |
| USE1-APIGateway-Portal-Product-Months | $12.50 | Month | us-east-1 |
| USE1-APIGateway-Portal-Months | $125.00 | Month | us-east-1 |
Prices in USD. Micro-prices are quoted per 1M units; "< $0.000001" marks rates below our stored precision. Subject to change — check the provider's official page.