Adding Custom Rate Limiting to Your AWS Lambda API Using a Middleware
Rate limiting an API or service is a common use case. But how can you do this for your AWS Lambda? API Gateway offers usage planes and quotas, so you can put a API in front of the lambda, but quotas have some downsides there:
Usage plan throttling a...
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Using Momento as the rate limit store with TTL support is a clean alternative to managing your own Redis or DynamoDB table — the Middy middleware pattern keeps it composable too.