# Using Amazon API Gateway as cell router
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 [Amazon API Gateway](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/welcome.html) is an AWS service for creating, publishing, maintaining, monitoring, and securing REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs at any scale. It's a serverless regional service and has a good fit to be your cell router. It has native integration with many AWS services, caching support, throttling, rate limit, canary deployments, usage plan configuration and many other features. [DynamoDB](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/index.html) is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability com latency single digit in milliseconds and with an SLA of 99.99% and 99.999% with global tables enabled. 

![\[Diagram showing the use of Amazon API Gateway\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/reducing-scope-of-impact-with-cell-based-architecture/images/api-gateway.png)


 DynamoDB also features the [Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)](https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/dax/?ref=wellarchitected) is a fully managed, highly available in-memory cache for Amazon DynamoDB that delivers up to a 10X performance improvement from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. 

 DynamoDB is a powerful serverless and regional NoSQL database, but according to your workload needs, any database can be used in this model of cell router architecture.