API Gateway Federation Explained – How WSO2 API Manager Powers Modern Distributed Architectures
In today’s digital ecosystem, enterprise applications are becoming highly distributed—running across multiple clouds, regions, and on-premises environments. As organizations scale, traditional single-gateway API architectures start showing limits, especially around latency, performance, and reliability. To address this, WSO2 API Manager introduces a powerful capability: API Gateway Federation . In this article, we’ll explore: What API Gateway Federation is and why it matters How WSO2 API Manager implements a federated architecture Real-world use cases Key benefits of Federation A hands-on walkthrough of deploying APIs to AWS API Gateway directly from WSO2 API Manager What is API Gateway Federation? Traditionally, enterprises used one central API gateway to receive and process all API requests. This worked when applications were hosted in a single region. But in modern architectures— microservices, multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, and regional deployments —this model introduc...
