In my experience, API Gateway is holding Lambda back. It would help if AWS came out with a radically simpler (and faster) configuration of API Gateway tightly c

In my experience, API Gateway is holding Lambda back. It would help if AWS came out with a radically simpler (and faster) configuration of API Gateway tightly coupled with Lambda, that doesn't require an arcane API to configure routes or get data out of your request and into your response. API Gateway seems to have been pressed into the role of proxying Lambda without necessarily being fit for purpose. If I understand correctly, API Gateway is a third-party acquisition (which is why its API behaves quite different from most AWS APIs) originally intended to translate and proxy between JSON and XML APIs.