[SOLVED] Is the API gateway stage level throttling limit shared between the methods or independent?

Is the API gateway stage level throttling limit shared between the methods or independent?

is the AWS Rest API Gateway Stage-level throttling limit shared between the methods or independent ?

Assume we have 5 methods in API Gateway, and stage level throttling rate is set to 10tps. Will all the 5 methods share the same 10tps quota, or each one will get their independent quota ? In other words, will overloading one method impact other methods.

The documentation says that 'Per-API, per-stage throttling limits are applied at the API method level for a stage. You can configure the same settings for all methods, or configure different throttle settings for each method.'

As per my understanding, each method should get independent quota. I also did few load tests to validate the same.

But can someone please confirm ?

Thanks

Solution

That is correct, as explained in the documentation that you quoted. Each method will have its own, independent quota. The general idea is that you can set a throttling for each method of a stage in one place. For example, you have 5 methods and 2 stages. You want each method in dev stage to have a throttling limit of 10 and in prod stage to have a throttling limit of 100. This way, you set a throttling on a stage level and don't have to do it for each method individually (but you can override it for specific method if needed)