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Companies requiring a high-performance and highly available API hosting solution to deploy and release APIs on Alibaba Cloud products
About Alibaba Cloud API Gateway
API Gateway provides API lifecycle management services, including API publishing, management, maintenance, and monetization. It enables simple and fast microservice integration, front and back end separation, and system integration at low costs and low risks. You can use API Gateway to share functions and data with your partners and third-party developers. Provides API documentation, SDKs, and API version management to reduce the daily maintenance costs. API Gateway supports distributed deployment and auto-scaling to respond to large numbers of requests with low latency. API Gateway activation and API management are free of charge. You only need to pay for APIs that you have called. API Gateway supports permission management, traffic throttling, monitoring, and alarms. You can allow API Gateway to access your services in the intranet without causing any security issues.
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Pricing
Starting Price:
$0.45 per million calls
Free Trial:
Free Trial available.
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Alibaba Cloud
Founded: 2008
China
www.alibabacloud.com/product/api-gateway
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