Amazon API Gateway adds Developer Portal capabilities
Amazon API Gateway launches Portals that now enable businesses to create fully managed, AWS native developer portals that serve as the central hub for AWS assets such as REST APIs for discovery, documentation, governance, and across their AWS infrastructure. Portals solve the challenge of fragmented APIs by automatically discovering existing APIs across accounts, generating documentation and also allow custom documentation. Teams can organize APIs into logical products for different audiences, customize branding by attaching company logos, configure access controls, ensure API compliance with organizational standards, and use analytics for understanding user engagement. Users can benefit from discovery and "Try It" button for API exploration.
Portals deliver three benefits that address the pressing challenges in API management today. They eliminate the security risks of third-party solutions by keeping all API configurations within AWS boundaries while providing access control for internal and external audiences. Portals also reduce developer onboarding time from weeks to minutes through automated portal generation, and documentation that updates as APIs evolve. This eliminates the weeks of infrastructure setup and also promotes re-use across developer teams. Portals also provide visibility into developer portal usage and analytics, through CloudWatch RUM (Real User Monitoring) making it easier to understand user engagement.
To learn about pricing for this feature, please see the Amazon API Gateway pricing page. Amazon API Gateway Portals is available in all AWS Regions, excluding the AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions. To get started, visit Amazon API Gateway documentation and AWS blog post.