🆚 Amazon API Gateway vs. Kong Gateway
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About
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed AWS service that acts as an entry point for applications to access backend services such as 
Lambda functions, EC2 workloads, or any 
HTTP endpoint.
It routes and throttles API traffic, enforces authorization through IAM, 
Amazon Cognito, and Lambda authorizers, monitors performance with CloudWatch and X-Ray, supports canary releases and response streaming, and exposes REST APIs as MCP tools for AI agents.
Kong Gateway is an API gateway that manages, secures, and routes API traffic using a cloud-native, platform-agnostic architecture.
It provides request proxying, routing, load balancing, health checks, authentication, rate limiting, and observability features, and can be extended through plugins written in 
Lua, 
Go, or 
JavaScript.
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Pricing
(0.5+ GB) $0.02/hour
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the API Gateways category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the API Gateways category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in China in the API Gateways category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Amazon company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,976,354 websites. However, data for Amazon API Gateway is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.