Amazon API Gateway vs RAML: What are the differences?

What is Amazon API Gateway? 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.

What is RAML? RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing. RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing. It's concise - you only write what you need to define - and reusable. It is machine readable API design that is actually human friendly.

Amazon API Gateway and RAML can be categorized as "API" tools.

Some of the features offered by Amazon API Gateway are:

• Build, Deploy and Manage APIs
• Resiliency
• API Lifecycle Management

On the other hand, RAML provides the following key features:

• Create and pull in namespaced, reusable libraries, containing data types
• Annotations let you add vendor specific functionality without compromising your spec
• Traits and resource Types let you take advantage of code reuse and design patterns

"AWS Integration" is the top reason why over 23 developers like Amazon API Gateway, while over 9 developers mention "API Specification" as the leading cause for choosing RAML.

According to the StackShare community, Amazon API Gateway has a broader approval, being mentioned in 170 company stacks & 65 developers stacks; compared to RAML, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.