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We performed a comparison between 3scale API Management and Amazon API Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed 3scale API Management vs. Amazon API Gateway Report (Updated: March 2024).
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"The standard deployment is very simple.""The gateway is the most valuable feature because it makes it possible for us to gather all traffic into one proxy, which is a good thing.""It's good that they aren't adding a lot of features like ESP, etc. It's okay with just being a gateway.""The most valuable features are the gateway and security features.""3scale API Management's best feature is API management.""To me, the most valuable feature of 3scale API Management is that it lets you add a backend to the product. I also like that you can integrate it well with OpenShift clusters, making 3scale API Management a useful solution.""The solution is quite lightweight, and the installation is very easy. It's like a two-click installation.""I like the API automation."

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"The solution is a managed service and requires minimal configuration, which makes it easy to launch an API.""The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end.""The product is stable.""The most valuable feature in Amazon API Gateway is the itinerary release.""Amazon API Gateway is a very fast solution.""The product is really good when it comes to API lifecycle management, and it is not just something that includes the balancing part or the security aspect but also the routing and the fallback mechanism.""It is a stable solution.""The solution is stable."

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Cons
"What was suggested by Red Hat was a crucial part of the configuration, but when we started to ask about the supportability of this configuration, Red Hat said only some parts of the configuration would be supported.""The product is not that flexible for developers. It's less flexible and rigid. It's not easy to make changes or customize it.""What I'd like to improve in 3scale API Management is its route-limiting feature. Currently, I don't know how to do that effectively on the solution, but in Kong, I know how to do it, so I would love to see route-limiting being easily done on 3scale API Management. It would also be good if there was some authentication that you could do from 3scale API Management because Kong offers that functionality out of the box. What I'd love to see in the next release of 3scale API Management is the ability to integrate more plug-ins easily onto the platform, so you'll be able to extend it, and even do customs management. If Red Hat could offer that extension where it allows the internal organization where 3scale API Management is deployed on-premise to integrate its tools on top of 3scale API Management and provide an API for that, that will make the solution very powerful.""It would be helpful to improve the customization features so that the customer can do it based on their own needs.""3scale API Management only supports restful APIs and doesn't support SOAP.""I believe the CMS part of it has room for improvement though. That is where you write a couple of things if you want to publish your API. It's based on liquid scripting, which doesn't seem like the obvious ones to script with.""We tried to use the portal, but we decided that it wasn't enough. The content management system (CMS) is not easy to use if you want to customize things, and it's hard to get someone who has the knowledge to work with the CMS.""The user experience could be better. The developer portal is too complex and hard to configure."

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"The tool's UI requires time to understand.""When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level.""Amazon API Gateway is not as complete as Apigee and needs to be improved by adding more features to become a more robust application.""Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function.""Amazon API Gateway needs to focus on minimizing latency.""I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support.""Their support services come at a considerable cost, leaving room for improvement.""A lower price would definitely be an improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I don't think that 3scale is very expensive."
  • "3scale API Management has reasonable pricing, judging from its competitor, Kong. My organization pays yearly for the 3scale API Management license, though I'm unable to give the exact figure because every single day there are new clusters deployed. I'm in charge of three to four clusters in my team, but give or take, it costs a few thousand lakhs."
  • "The cost was around $45,000 per year."
  • "The pricing is affordable, it's cheap."
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  • "This is a pay-per-use service, where you only pay for what you use."
  • "Fees are volume-based."
  • "There are no licensing fees."
  • "I am satisfied with the price."
  • "There is an annual licensing cost to use Amazon API Gateway."
  • "Amazon API Gateway has various pricing plans, but I cannot give the exact cost, though I can say that it's expensive. On a scale of one to five, I'd rate the pricing for Amazon API Gateway as two, as the solution is one of the most expensive products in the market for API management."
  • "We use all open-source technology."
  • "Since it's a serverless solution, Amazon API Gateway is not so expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution is affordable. I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten, where one is expensive, and ten is cheap.
    Top Answer:The tool can improve API management and UI.
    Top Answer:Amazon API Gateway is a platform that supports the creation and publication of API for web applications. The platform can support thousands of simultaneous API calls, and it provides monitoring… more »
    Top Answer:I have found that Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager is the best integration tool out there for API management. It is easy to implement and learn; it provides several options for deployment, (including… more »
    Top Answer:If you use Azure products, API Management is a great solution. It solves many of the problems of externalizing web services. For example, when you need versioning, establish a developer portal and… more »
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    Overview

    3scale is an API management platform that delivers flexible, highly scalable solutions to package, distribute, control, and monetize your APIs, giving you the power to make the most of your API program.

    • Share company data, content, or services through Web or mobile applications.
    • Provide an API to external organizations, internal teams, or both.
    • Avoid the hassle and constant maintenance of building a solution from scratch.

    3scale delivers centralized API management features through a distributed, cloud-hosted layer. The platform includes built-in features to help you build a more successful API program, including access control, rate limits, payment gateway integration, and developer experience tools.

    Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can create an API that acts as a "front door" for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your back-end services, such as workloads running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), code running on AWS Lambda, or any Web application.

    Sample Customers
    Victor Ops, Coca Cola, The Telegraph, Skava, Orange, Typeform
    Autodesk, Fox Digital Consumer Group, iFlix, UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), Miovision, Olympusat, PhotoVogue, Royale International Group, Veracode
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company25%
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Retailer20%
    Insurance Company5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Insurance Company6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business45%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise36%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise65%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise47%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise68%
    Buyer's Guide
    3scale API Management vs. Amazon API Gateway
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about 3scale API Management vs. Amazon API Gateway and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    3scale API Management is ranked 12th in API Management with 10 reviews while Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews. 3scale API Management is rated 7.4, while Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of 3scale API Management writes "Useful as it lets you add a backend to the product, it integrates well with clusters, and it has exceptional technical support, but route-limiting isn't easy to do on it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". 3scale API Management is most compared with Kong Gateway Enterprise, Apigee, IBM API Connect, WSO2 API Manager and Microsoft Azure API Management, whereas Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Axway AMPLIFY API Management. See our 3scale API Management vs. Amazon API Gateway report.

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