Throttling

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API Rate Limiting

Controlling how many requests a client can make in a time window to protect API capacity, ensure fair use, and defend against abuse, using algorithms like token bucket.

Patterns1

Pattern

Rate Limiter

Caps how many requests a client or system may make in a time window, protecting services from overload, abuse, and runaway cost.

Tutorials2

Tutorial

How to build a REST API with Amazon API Gateway

Configure Amazon API Gateway routes, stages, and authorizers to expose backend services as a managed REST API.

Tutorial

How to Add Rate Limiting to an API

Protect an API with token-bucket rate limiting, return standard rate-limit headers, and share limits across instances with Redis.