Recently, I used Azure's "Azure SignalR Service" along with Azure App Service to build a real time chat app. It worked like magic. I loved it! However, I am constrained now to use AWS for my platform and would like an equal substitute service such that I can build a real time service, leveraging nothing but AWS services.
What is the equal subsitite in AWS that I can leverage so that I can build a real-time app similar to how I built the Azure app with Azure SignalR Service and Azure App Service?
My plan is to use both API Gateway + AWS Elastic Beanstock. What are my options here? Is Elastic beanstock going to work out? Not sure if I need some type of always-on feature implemented in the Elastic beanstock so that down periods dont spin down AWS resources and break WebSocket connections.
1 note worth mentioning. One of the hard requirements I have as part of this project is to create an HTTP rest-full api. My plan is to place this behind the API Gateway proxy.
AWS states that it provides real-time service using API gateway here
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-websocket-apis-in-amazon-api-gateway/
However, within API Gateway I believe I need to create "HTTP API" instead of "WebSocket API". If I have a backend web api using for example ASP.NET Core web api, can I still select WebSocket API?
If I go with AWS "WebSocket API", How can I create an API Front end (proxy) for my backend ASP.NET COre web api while still allowing for real time?