We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Apiary based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."Amazon stack is easy to use in combination with other Amazon services, so it was a logical continuity."
"It is easy to set up. It is also quick to deploy."
"Integrating API Gateway with other AWS services was easy. It worked out of the box, so it worked perfectly."
"It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"It allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them."
"One of the most valuable aspects of API Gateway is its native integration with AWS services."
"The solution is solid, robust, and scalable."
"The solution is a managed service and requires minimal configuration, which makes it easy to launch an API."
"I do like the overall performance of the solution."
"Git integration"
"In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so."
"Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams."
"I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers."
"It would be useful to have a more complete development environment for the developer, with different integrative capabilities to manage all the life cycles for the API. I think the full version formula for that is really useful. They should improve the development environment for easier integration."
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"The integration could be improved."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"Like most Amazon services, and this one's the same, you're expected to effectively do your own support, and any other support is by emails, so it's quite limited."
"I believe better governance and monitoring features would be beneficial."
"Its support for SAM integration could be made more accessible."
"The tool's UI requires time to understand."
"Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"
"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition."
"The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year."
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Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Apiary is ranked 36th in API Management. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Apiary is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apiary writes "The ability to configure rules to check for consistency has helped". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Layer7 API Management, whereas Apiary is most compared with SwaggerHub, Oracle API Platform Cloud Service, Apigee and Microsoft Azure API Management.
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