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Amazon API Gateway vs Netlify: What are the differences?
Developers describe Amazon API Gateway as "Create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale". Amazon API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management. On the other hand, Netlify is detailed as "Build, deploy and host your static site or app with a drag and drop interface and automatic delpoys from GitHub or Bitbucket". Netlify is smart enough to process your site and make sure all assets gets optimized and served with perfect caching-headers from a cookie-less domain. We make sure your HTML is served straight from our CDN edge nodes without any round-trip to our backend servers and are the only ones to give you instant cache invalidation when you push a new deploy. Netlify is also the only static hosting service with integrated continuous deployment.
Amazon API Gateway and Netlify are primarily classified as "API" and "Static Web Hosting" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Amazon API Gateway are:
- Build, Deploy and Manage APIs
- Resiliency
- API Lifecycle Management
On the other hand, Netlify provides the following key features:
- Global Network
- Global Network
- Instant Cache Validation
"AWS Integration" is the primary reason why developers consider Amazon API Gateway over the competitors, whereas "Fastest static hosting and continuous deployments" was stated as the key factor in picking Netlify.
According to the StackShare community, Amazon API Gateway has a broader approval, being mentioned in 167 company stacks & 62 developers stacks; compared to Netlify, which is listed in 86 company stacks and 98 developer stacks.
We use Netlify to host static websites.
The reasons for choosing Netlify over GitHub Pages are as follows:
- Netfily can bind multiple domain names, while GitHub Pages can only bind one domain name
- With Netfily, the original repository can be private, while GitHub Pages free tier requires the original repository to be public
In addition, in order to use CDN, we use Netlify DNS.
Pros of Amazon API Gateway
- AWS Integration37
- Websockets7
- Serverless1
Pros of Netlify
- Easy deploy46
- Fastest static hosting and continuous deployments43
- Free SSL support22
- Super simple deploys22
- Easy Setup and Continous deployments15
- Faster than any other option in the market10
- Free plan for personal websites10
- Deploy previews8
- Free Open Source (Pro) plan6
- Easy to use and great support4
- Analytics4
- Great loop-in material on a blog4
- Custom domains support3
- Fastest static hosting and continuous deployments3
- Great drag and drop functionality3
- Canary Releases (Split Tests)1
- Supports static site generators1
- Tech oriented support1
- Django0
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Cons of Amazon API Gateway
- No websocket broadcast2
- Less expensive1
Cons of Netlify
- It's expensive7
- Bandwidth limitation1
