Amazon API Gateway vs ReadMe

Amazon API Gateway is a cloud service for creating, publishing, maintaining, monitoring, and securing APIs that connect applications to backend services. It supports REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs, including real-time two-way communication. Integrations include AWS Lambda, Step Functions, Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, and public HTTP endpoints; HTTP APIs can also route requests to certain private services. API Gateway Portals provide managed spaces to discover, document, and govern REST APIs. Traffic controls include request throttling and configurable caching for REST APIs. The console integrates with Amazon CloudWatch for call, latency, and error metrics, alarms, and execution logs. Authorization options include IAM, Lambda authorizers, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and other listed methods; REST API keys are optional. A free tier is available to new AWS customers for up to 12 months within monthly allowances, with excess usage charged at standard rates. Pay-as-you-go has no minimum fees or upfront commitments; the listed pricing note is From $1. WebSocket messages can be up to 128 KB and are metered in 32 KB increments.

ReadMe is a web service for publishing documentation to internal and external audiences. Its plans organize content by projects and published versions. Starter is free for everyone and includes one project, one published version, 24 hours of request history, and 24 hours of detailed logs. Pro keeps one project, adds unlimited published versions, and costs $250 a month when billed annually; it also includes the same 24-hour history and detailed logs. That plan combines multiple projects, aggregates documentation metrics, removes ReadMe branding, and adds user roles and access control, audit logs, SSO, OAuth, and more. ReadMe supports custom domains, single sign-on, version history, and content analytics. The maker is ReadMe, headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. The listed platform is web, and a 14-day trial is listed.