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AWS API Gateway is a managed front door for APIs: routing, auth, throttling, caching, and request/response transformation.

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API Gateway

COMPANYAmazon Web Services
REUSE RESEARCHApache APISIX
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Company
Amazon Web Services (amazon_aws)
Product type
api
Categories
api
Official site
https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/ ↗
Catalog ID
aws-api-gateway

At a glance

AWS API Gateway is a managed front door for APIs: routing, auth, throttling, caching, and request/response transformation.

Catalog categories: api.

Catalogued capability areas: - Routing, rate limiting and quotas - Auth (IAM, JWT, API keys, mTLS) - Request/response transformation, caching, observability

This summary reflects the catalog record, not a complete product specification. Verify intended users, end-to-end workflows, supported platforms, edge cases, data handling, and constraints against cited sources. Treat capability labels as research leads until that verification is complete.

  • Routing, rate limiting and quotas
  • Auth (IAM, JWT, API keys, mTLS)
  • Request/response transformation, caching, observability

Open-source alternative

5 candidate projects in the landscape. A candidate may cover all, part, or none of what API Gateway does — read the coverage and gaps below.

Apache APISIX

Apache-2.0

High-performance API gateway with plugins.

Full-featured.

Kong Gateway

Apache-2.0

Popular gateway with a plugin ecosystem.

Open-core.

Tyk

MPL-2.0

Open-source API gateway and management.

Open-core.

KrakenD

Apache-2.0

Stateless API gateway/aggregator.

Config-driven.

Coverage and gaps

Alternative coverage

Available. A crowded field of mature open gateways exists.

The gap

AWS’s deep IAM/Lambda integration and fully managed nature are the remaining differences.

Build this product with your agent

This Markdown file is the coding-agent skill for API Gateway. Give it to your agent in your project; it guides research, reuse decisions, implementation and verification.

Get the API Gateway build skill

rae aws-api-gateway --out ./aws-api-gateway-agent

Generate the skill with the RAE CLI, or download the Markdown skill. The source skill is also available in the catalog.

  • agent-kit.mdDownloadable Markdown skill with product-specific instructions for your coding agent.available
  • skill.mdGenerated copy of the same product skill — rae aws-api-gateway --out ./aws-api-gateway-agent.in kit
  • mcp.jsonOptional MCP server config — rae aws-api-gateway --out ./aws-api-gateway-agent.in kit
  • Product workspaceOptional starting workspace for your agent — rae build product aws-api-gateway --out ./aws-api-gateway.
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Next step

Give the API Gateway skill to your coding agent in your project. Ask it to evaluate Apache APISIX ↗ against your needs, reuse what fits, then follow the skill's build and verification instructions.

Give the product skill to your coding agent in the project where you want to build. Optional starter workspace: rae build product aws-api-gateway --out ./aws-api-gateway. CLI reference.

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