AWS Architecture Blog
Author: Nick Choi
Nick Choi is a Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services. He works with software and SaaS customers to design, build, operate, and evolve their SaaS service on AWS. He is passionate about understanding why and how SaaS businesses are changing way we live, work, and play.
Throttling a tiered, multi-tenant REST API at scale using API Gateway: Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog series, we demonstrated why tiering and throttling become necessary at scale for multi-tenant REST APIs, and explored tiering strategy and throttling with Amazon API Gateway. In this post, Part 2, we will examine tenant isolation strategies at scale with API Gateway and extend the sample code from Part 1. […]
Throttling a tiered, multi-tenant REST API at scale using API Gateway: Part 1
Many software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers adopt throttling as a common technique to protect a distributed system from spikes of inbound traffic that might compromise reliability, reduce throughput, or increase operational cost. Multi-tenant SaaS systems have an additional concern of fairness; excessive traffic from one tenant needs to be selectively throttled without impacting the experience of other […]