Cloud-native API Gateway is deeply integrated with cloud products such as container services, microservices, and Function Compute. It lets you quickly expose cloud resources as services and build a secure, efficient, open API platform. This helps enterprises transition smoothly to the digital age.
Low cost
Cloud-native API Gateway merges the features of traffic gateways (such as Kubernetes Ingress and Nginx), microservice gateways (such as Spring Cloud Gateway and Zuul Gateway), and security gateways. This reduces resource overhead by 50%, shortens request times, and simplifies O&M.
Increased productivity
This managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) product provides productivity tools for each stage of the API lifecycle. This greatly improves API management and O&M efficiency and reduces daily maintenance costs.
Security
Supports standard JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication.
Supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication based on the OAuth 2.0 open standard for authorization.
Integrates with Alibaba Cloud's Application Identity Service (IDaaS) to quickly implement third-party authentication and logon capabilities for services such as Alipay, Taobao, and Tmall.
High integration
Seamlessly integrates with container and microservice systems. It supports multiple service discovery methods, such as Kubernetes (K8s), Nacos, and Function Compute (FC).
Provides pioneering support for the Dubbo 3.0 protocol and graceful shutdown.
Seamlessly integrates with logging and monitoring services. This lets you view core and risk-related gateway metrics at a glance for efficient troubleshooting.
Seamlessly integrates with the certificate system to simplify certificate management.
High performance and high availability
Uses a distributed deployment to handle large-scale access and process requests with low latency.
Developed from an internal Alibaba product, it was tested during the 2020 Double 11 shopping festival, where it handled hundreds of thousands of requests per second. It is currently used in various Alibaba business systems, such as Alipay, DingTalk, Taobao, Tmall, Youku, Fliggy, and Koubei.