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AWS ALB vs API Gateway
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AWS_ALB_vs_APIGateway
| AWS |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| API Gateway | ALB |
| Manages the routing and processing of API requests from clients | Distributes incoming traffic across multiple instances of service |
| Can implement rate limiting, bursting for APIs | No rate limiting, bursting capability |
| Not possible to get a static IP addresss for endpoint (always a URL) | Possible to get a static IP address for load balancer endpoint |
| Accepts HTTPS traffic | Accepts HTTP, HTTPS traffic |
| Able to do request validation(apache velocity), request/response mapping | Not able to do request validation, request/response mapping |
| Able to handle spkiy traffic (default rate - 10k rps, 5k burst rate) | Delay during spkiy traffic, pre-allocate LCUs to avoid delay(charged extra) |
| Can scale up and down |
| Able to integerate with Lambda from different region, even different AWS account | ALB is a regional service |
| Able to export/import APIs cross APO platforms using swagger, Open API Spec 3.0 | No direct method to import/export rules for cross platforms |
| Able to cache responses | Not able to cache responses |
| Timeout limit 30 seconds | Timeout limit 4000 seconds |
| Integerates with almost all AWS services | Use EC2, Lambda, IP addresses as backend |
| No health check available | Health check available |
| Pay per use | Pay for idle |
| Kong Gateway, AWS API Gateway, Apigee, Kong | AWS Elastic Load balanacer, Nginx, HAProxy |
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