🆚 Amazon API Gateway vs. Ngrok
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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.
Ngrok is a globally distributed reverse proxy platform that creates encrypted tunnels and consolidates load balancing, API gateway, and firewall capabilities for applications, APIs, and network services.
It supports HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, and TLS traffic, 
OAuth, OIDC, and 
JWT authentication, rate limiting, IP restrictions, webhook verification, endpoint load balancing, a 
Kubernetes Ingress Operator, Agent SDKs, and real-time traffic inspection with request replay.
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Pricing
(0.5+ GB) $0.02/hour
(5GB transfer, 100K HTTP/S reqs) $10/month
(5GB+ transfer, 100K+ HTTP/S reqs) $20+/month
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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the API Gateways category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Indonesia in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in India in the API Gateways category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the API Gateways category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in India 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.