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API Gateway

Google Cloud's API Gateway acts as a unified entry point for your backend services, enforcing consistent REST interfaces and securing access across your infrastructure. It handles the routing and authentication layer, ensuring that disparate services present a coherent API surface to clients without requiring individual service-specific security implementations.

This setup suits teams needing centralized API management within the GCP ecosystem, but it lacks a free tier entirely. You operate strictly on a pay-as-you-go model, meaning even minimal testing or development environments incur costs, which can be a friction point for small projects or early-stage prototypes.

• Free tier No
• Pricing Pay as you go
• Regions 10 · 5 continents
• SLA uptime 99.99%
• Compliance 13 certifications
• Provider health B