Notes and Constraints

Quota Limits

To change the default restrictions, contact technical support to increase the quota.

Important

  • It takes 5 to 10 seconds for a new or modified APIG resource to take effect.

  • The maximum quota may be slightly exceeded in case of high concurrency, but resource usage will not be affected.

Table 1 Dedicated API gateway quotas

Item

Default Restriction

Modifiable

Gateways

5

Y

API groups

1500

Y

APIs

Number of APIs for each gateway edition:

  • Basic: 250

  • Professional: 800

  • Enterprise: 2000

  • Platinum: 8000

Y

APIs

1000 for each group

x

Backend policies

5

Y

Apps (credentials)

  1. The app quota includes the apps you have created.

Y

Request throttling policies

  • You can create a maximum of 300 request throttling policies for each gateway.

  • The call limit for a single user cannot exceed that for the target API.

  • The call limit for a single app (credential) cannot exceed that for a single user.

  • The call limit for a single IP address cannot exceed that for the target API.

Y

Environments

10

Y

Signature keys

200

Y

Access control policies

100

Y

VPC channels (load balance channels)

200

Y

Variables

You can create a maximum of 50 variables for an API group in each environment.

Y

Independent domain names

A maximum of five independent domain names can be bound to an API group.

Y

ECSs

A maximum of 10 ECSs can be added to a VPC channel.

Y

Parameters

A maximum of 50 parameters can be created for an API.

Y

API publication records

A maximum of 10 publication records of an API can be retained for each environment.

Y

API access rate

Up to 6000 times per second

Y

Excluded applications (Credentials)

A maximum of 30 excluded apps can be added to a request throttling policy.

Y

Excluded tenants

A maximum of 30 excluded tenants can be added to a request throttling policy.

Y

Access to a subdomain name (debugging domain name)

A subdomain name can be accessed up to 1000 times a day.

x

Maximum size of an API request package

12 MB

Y

TLS protocol

TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 are supported. TLS 1.2 is recommended.

Y

Custom authorizers

50

x

Plug-ins

500

Y

HTTP protocol

When the HTTP protocol is used, the maximum size of URL+Header is 32 KB.

x