We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Apigee based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon API Gateway has a slight edge in this comparison due to it being the less expensive solution.
"The most valuable feature in Amazon API Gateway is the itinerary release."
"It is a stable solution."
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."
"In terms of scalability, I haven't encountered any issues with API Gateway. We've significantly increased our traffic from hitting it once or twice a minute to now hitting it ten to fifteen times within a minute. In an hour, we're receiving hundreds of hits. So, it's performing excellently."
"Amazon API Gateway can integrate with ECS and Lambda."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"One of the most valuable aspects of API Gateway is its native integration with AWS services."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"The capabilities are very powerful."
"Lifecycle management."
"Anyone with basic knowledge can build an API."
"Apigee is a very lightweight solution."
"The most important feature is the security capabilities and the way it integrates very quickly with other security providers. We have integrated it with Azure and it integrates quite seamlessly."
"The opportunity for customization is really vast and it is a really good feature built into the product."
"A very functional solution."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"If I take into consideration the past three to four years, during which I used the tool, I would say that some missing and external configurations were not possible in the product, and it was a bit difficult to manage."
"The tool's UI requires time to understand."
"Their support services come at a considerable cost, leaving room for improvement."
"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."
"Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function."
"It's hard to configure. There's a lot of options but it's very hard, it's very confusing."
"Since the first invocation of AWS Lambda takes more than 30 seconds because of Lambda's cold start, Amazon API Gateway blocks that resource, thereby aborting the invocation."
"The user interface could be better. It could be easier to navigate and more user-friendly."
"I would like to see the monitoring, dashboards, and reports improve."
"I would recommend this solution to those who want to start using it, but it depends on the requirements and automation."
"Compared to its competitors, such as Axway AMPLIFY API Management and Layer7 API Management, Apigee could benefit from having more policies to cater to various use cases. This would reduce the need for writing custom JavaScripts. If more features come straight out of the box, we can leverage them instead of writing custom code to achieve the same functionality."
"It would be good if the Apigee management allowed us to be able to consolidate many operations into single one for the gateway functionality."
"Access restrictions can be improved."
"I am still struggling to understand how we can use Apigee as a hybrid system. The pricing of this solution could also be improved as there are multiple new products coming onto the market at competitive price points."
"The developer portal's adoption of the OpenAPI standard needs to be improved. In the latest version of the developer portal, they have adopted the OpenAPI standard. This feature, however, can be improved by supporting more characteristics of the OpenAPI standard."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Apigee 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 Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Apigee report.
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