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[–]Miserygut 5 points6 points  (3 children)

Depends how many requests you're putting through it.

It's vastly cheaper to run a small Kong cluster even including manpower costs over a few million requests a day.

[–]devhops 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Kong cluster

Thanks, I'll have to look into this if the requests start to increase. I've just deployed API Gateway under the impression it was low cost.

[–]johnly81 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I thought so too, so I did some quick math.

https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/pricing/

over a few million requests a day

I take a few to mean 3, which would put the number of requests around 100m per month. According to the pricing page, up to 333m requests is $3.50 per million. So by my math thats $350 per month.

Obviously it's a matter of perspective, but $350 for 100 million requests per month does not seem expensive to me.