Benefits

Lower infrastructure cost

Cloud-native API Gateway unifies the capabilities of traffic gateways (such as Kubernetes Ingress and Nginx), microservice gateways (such as Spring Cloud Gateway and Zuul Gateway), and security gateways into one product. This consolidation reduces resource overhead by 50%, cuts request latency, and simplifies O&M.

Full API lifecycle management

As a managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) product, Cloud-native API Gateway provides productivity tools at every stage of the API lifecycle, reducing maintenance overhead and improving O&M efficiency.

Built-in 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.

Deep integration with cloud services

• Integrates with container and microservice systems, with built-in support for multiple service discovery methods including Kubernetes (K8s), Nacos, and Function Compute (FC).

• Provides pioneering support for the Dubbo 3.0 protocol and graceful shutdown.

• Integrates with logging and monitoring services so you can view core gateway metrics and risk-related metrics in one place, accelerating troubleshooting.

• Integrates with the certificate system to simplify certificate lifecycle management.

High performance and high availability

• Uses a distributed deployment to handle large-scale traffic with low latency.

• Battle-tested at Alibaba's scale: the gateway originated as an internal Alibaba product and processed hundreds of thousands of requests per second during the 2020 Double 11 shopping festival. It powers production systems across Alipay, DingTalk, Taobao, Tmall, Youku, Fliggy, and Koubei.