Sold by: KrakenD API Gateway
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COMMUNITY EDITION. Effortlessly adopt microservices & reduce operational costs with an ultra-performant API Gateway
Sold by: KrakenD API Gateway
Overview
KrakenD is a simple-to-use Enterprise-grade API Gateway built to accelerate your microservices adoption, provide better response times, and reduce the bandwidth consumed. KrakenD aggregates, filters, and manipulates data (Backend for Frontend) from multiple and heterogeneous APIs and non-API services. It provides a single API to your products (web, mobile apps, devices, services) with only the needed data.
KrakenD scales linearly without any problem thanks to its stateless design. It also secures, throttles, caches, and monitors your underlying services. Some of the features are rate-limiting, authorization, load-balancing, proxy, monitoring, tracing, multi-protocol, automatic decoding, and many other features.
Highlights
- Ultra-high-speed of processing: +70.000K requests per second by one single instance.
- Lower operational costs: high-performance results in lower resource consumption, allowing you to save costs.
- True linear scalability: a stateless design that prevents a Single Point of Failure and avoids coordination or centralized configuration persistence.
Details
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Delivery method
Delivery option
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Latest version
Operating system
AmazonLinux Amazon Linux 2 AMI
Typical total price
This estimate is based on use of the seller's recommended configuration (t2.medium) in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. View pricing details
$0.146/hour
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Pricing
Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time.
Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate your infrastructure costs.
Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t2.nano | $0.05 | $0.006 | $0.056 |
t2.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.05 | $0.012 | $0.062 |
t2.small | $0.05 | $0.023 | $0.073 |
t2.medium Recommended | $0.10 | $0.046 | $0.146 |
t2.large | $0.10 | $0.093 | $0.193 |
t2.xlarge | $0.20 | $0.186 | $0.386 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.20 | $0.371 | $0.571 |
t3.nano | $0.10 | $0.005 | $0.105 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.10 | $0.01 | $0.11 |
t3.small | $0.10 | $0.021 | $0.121 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
No refund available
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Additional details
Usage instructions
Customers with existing versions prior to 2.0 should read this: https://www.krakend.io/docs/configuration/migrating/
Usage
Choose the server size according to your planned usage: https://www.krakend.io/docs/deploying/server-dimensioning/ KrakenD will start on port 8080 with an empty configuration.
You can check if the server is listening in http://yourinstance.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8080/__health
- To apply your own API rules inject your configuration in /etc/krakend/krakend.json.
- The configuration file can be generated manually or using https://designer.krakend.io
- Documentation: https://www.krakend.io/docs/overview/introduction/
Manual setup example:
- SSH your machine: ssh ec2-user@your-public-amazon-dns -i yourkey.pem
- Go to https://designer.krakend.io and visually generate your endpoints
- Save the generated krakend.json file and copy it to /etc/krakend/krakend.json (needs sudo)
- Restart the krakend service with: sudo systemctl restart krakend
Resources
Vendor resources
Support
Vendor support
This version of KrakenD is a ready-to-use AMI running the open-source version of KrakenD, and is NOT the KrakenD Enterprise version, and neither includes any of its support or service plans.
The open-source support options can be found in the URL: https://www.krakend.io/support/ Commercial support plans for the open-source version might be purchased separately.
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
Computer Software
The best-documented API gateway among the competitors, with the most helpful people behind it.
Reviewed on Oct 24, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
- The documentation is great, compared to other competitors
- The focus on being a good API Gateway, no focus on side projects that lower the quality of the gateway
- The people behind it are very helpful - they really want to help and search for a solution
- The flexible documentation feature
- It was easy to deploy in our Kubernetes cluster
- Go plugin support, with a handy builder image supplied
- Uses security-first principles like zero-trust security policy
- The focus on being a good API Gateway, no focus on side projects that lower the quality of the gateway
- The people behind it are very helpful - they really want to help and search for a solution
- The flexible documentation feature
- It was easy to deploy in our Kubernetes cluster
- Go plugin support, with a handy builder image supplied
- Uses security-first principles like zero-trust security policy
What do you dislike about the product?
- Because of the stateless nature of everything, some business requirements are challenging to implement. But I can see the reasoning - speed matters.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Replacing our current API Gateway, ultimately lowering maintenance.
Supporting future API Monetization & usage logging
Supporting future API Monetization & usage logging
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Yohan M.
KrakenD Enterprise Version Review
Reviewed on Oct 18, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about KrakenD is how easy it is to integrate it to your systems. It is also easy to implement the endpoint definitions. I like its ability to allow you to implement your own custom plugins to manage authorization and authentication based on your business needs. I also like how responsive its support team is, helping with enterprise level issues on a timely manner.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I don't like about KrakenD is its inability to run the application locally in debug mode. KrakenD offers metrics and logging mechanisms, but when running the application locally using your IDE of choice, it is not possible to have debug mode enabled and debug your code line by line. When writing custom plugins, it would be useful to run debug mode to make sure that each line of code in the plugin is working as expected.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For my organization KrakenD solved the problem of multiple authentication providers. To consume our private cloud APIs, users can choose between two types of authentication tokens being okta and authblue. We did not have a solution to enable the two authentication tokens in the same API gateway endpoint. However, after acquiring KrakenD Enterprise Version, we were able to integrate multiple authentication providers which solved a tremendous need for our customers to consume private cloud APIs.
Computer Software
We use KrakenD to power the Public API
Reviewed on Oct 14, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It is generally intuitive to configure and reliable. We've never had issues with it crashing or anything like that.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the documentation is not clear or needs more examples. For example, the rate limiter docs are quite confusing to me. I would also find it useful to have some repository with sample implementations with comments around what each configuration item does.
I'd also really like to see the possibility to customise access logs in a better way so that it is more filterable in tools such as datadog.
I'd also really like to see the possibility to customise access logs in a better way so that it is more filterable in tools such as datadog.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
KrakenD handles our token validation, routing to different backends, rate limiting and even region routing via a custom plugin.
Computer Software
Very stable and extendable API gateway
Reviewed on Oct 14, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
In short, it's stability, the performance and the extendability via plugins. Also, the file-based configuration, including templating, is something we value a lot.
It took us only 3-4 weeks to develop a robust solution that suits our needs, including Golang plugins.
We run KrakenD in production for a couple of months now and haven't had any issues since we deployed it. The uptime is flawless.
The team at KrakenD is super quick in responding to questions and issues. They have been great to work with.
Thanks to the Docker image and the file-based configuration, it integrated very neatly into our stack.
It took us only 3-4 weeks to develop a robust solution that suits our needs, including Golang plugins.
We run KrakenD in production for a couple of months now and haven't had any issues since we deployed it. The uptime is flawless.
The team at KrakenD is super quick in responding to questions and issues. They have been great to work with.
Thanks to the Docker image and the file-based configuration, it integrated very neatly into our stack.
What do you dislike about the product?
One part for which we use KrakenD is to proxy requests. One minor point regarding this is that the configuration file gets somewhat lengthy with duplication. There is a technical reason for this, and it's not hindering us from using KrakenD. Further, a lot of the duplication can be decreased by using the templating that is offered by KrakenD, which we do.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use KrakenD as the single interaction and entrypoint for our Frontend applications. It has benefited us greatly in establishing a unified way of interaction and also helped us aligning our product teams around this approach using a API gateway.
Javier E.
Easy to develop, implementation and use
Reviewed on Oct 12, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I have migrated an older api manager to KrakenD and it is faster, secure and powerfull. It is easy to develop, deploy and use for customers.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it is difficult search a valid example
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have security risk with older api manager and we have some problems to develop new features.
KrakenD gives us new tools, features and security updates often
KrakenD gives us new tools, features and security updates often