20 engineers on Hacker News describe using Amazon API Gateway first-hand: 5 endorse it, 2 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“both Cognito and especially API Gateway are somewhat convoluted to configure. They seem to work fine once you have them setup right”
mixed · production · nijave · 2026-05-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do currently enjoy not having to manage anything myself and I like that there's no internal abstractions”
endorse · production · politelemon · 2022-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The API Gateway and ALB code was pretty much a one-and-done, with the bulk of the work consisting of setting up TLS termination”
endorse · production · 2 yr · fivea · 2021-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Managed services like Lambda and API Gateway were prohibitively expensive.”
regret · personal · cj · 2019-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to AWS serverless about a year ago (API gateway and Lambda) and there have been no real surprises.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · matchagaucho · 2019-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use API Gateway even for our VM hosted APIs for the other features it provides”
endorse · production · scarface74 · 2018-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Lambda + API GW to manage the glue between our different data/service providers.”
endorse · production · laurentl · 2017-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Lambda + API Gateway requests typically incur a ~200ms invocation latency”
mixed · production · gamache · 2016-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The alternative is to create a whole new API gateway, but that means that once I get my stuff tested, I essentially have to recreate my new environment in production”
regret · production · cargomaster · 2015-07-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“API gateway ends up being more expensive every month than lambda.”
neutral · production · willio58 · 2023-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the lambda is behind an api gateway resource/method”
neutral · production · retrocryptid · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run mostly on AWS - essentially Lambda/API Gateway/SageMaker etc”
neutral · production · jedwhite · 2021-06-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“API Gateway is only used for the top level route.”
neutral · production · mozey · 2021-04-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our terraform has infrastructure code for: API Gateways”
neutral · production · lovehashbrowns · 2020-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Api-gateway -> Lambda -> NATS -> docker backend on GPU”
neutral · production · KaiserPro · 2019-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Sometimes the graphql-server sends direct api-calls via api-gateway.”
neutral · production · keremkazan · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have spent the last year and a half building a completely serverless production service on Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB”
neutral · production · 1.5 yr · not_kurt_godel · 2018-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do do a lot of the request parsing in the Lambda function itself, rather than letting API Gateway do this.”
neutral · personal · Vinnl · 2017-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The GraphQL API is backed by DynamoDB and is served via API Gateway.”
neutral · production · leetbulb · 2017-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we deploy a second function and switch the API Gateway over when we are good to go.”
neutral · production · Prefinem · 2017-06-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?