Traffic Management
Microservices may crash, but your application shouldn’t. The Ambassador Edge Stack includes support for automatic retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, and rate limiting to maximize application availability.
API Gateway Traffic Management Features
Load Balancing
Load balancing allows you to maximize the scalability and availability of your application by efficiently distributing network traffic among backend services. Ambassador supports the following load balancing techniques:
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Circuit Breaking
Circuit breakers limit the blast radius of an overloaded service by preventing additional connections or requests to an overloaded service.
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Progressive Delivery
Manipulate production traffic for testing features before release with Ambassador Edge Stack’s traffic management controls.
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Explore More API Gateway Features
- Proven Security and Authentication
- Simplified Kubernetes Management with the Ingress Controller
- Support for Popular Service Meshes
- Edge Policy Management - Key to Developer Self Service
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The Ambassador API Gateway delivers the scalability, security, and simplicity for some of the world's largest Kubernetes installations.