We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise 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."The product is stable."
"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."
"What I like best about Amazon API Gateway is that it's simple to use, easy to set up, and you can quickly get it up and running. It's a very user-friendly solution. I also didn't experience any issues in terms of Amazon API Gateway interface, integration, or monitoring. The solution runs smoothly."
"Amazon stack is easy to use in combination with other Amazon services, so it was a logical continuity."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"In our buying companies' perspective, it was easier to use compared to other platforms. The markets were pretty familiar with the solutions."
"There are a few features that I like about Kong when it comes to authentication and authorization. Specifically, being able to use Kong for role-based access control (RBAC), and then further being able to integrate the RBAC mechanism with our enterprise directory, was very useful."
"The tool's feature that I find most beneficial is rate limiting. In our usage, especially in the financial sector, we prioritize limiting API usage. This is crucial because we provide APIs to other companies and must ensure they adhere to their allocated usage limits. Without rate limiting, there's a risk of excessive usage, which could result in significant costs."
"Kong Enterprise has excellent plugin support."
"The most valuable features of Kong Enterprise are the out-of-the-box open source easy functionality."
"This is a solid intrusion prevention system that combines a firewall and antivirus in a single solution."
"The solution provides good performance."
"Kong enterprise has significantly enhanced our ability to manage and secure our Microservices. Its most valuable feature is monitoring."
"The integration could be improved."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"Currently, I'm not facing any issues with Amazon API Gateway, which satisfies my requirements. I'm pretty happy with what Amazon API Gateway offers, but as its pricing is on the higher side, that's one area for improvement in the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of Amazon API Gateway is an improvement in the status checks you get from the monitoring feature of the solution. Currently, you get the number of requests received, the number of reports, etc., but if there are more details than what's given by Amazon API Gateway, that will improve the solution."
"The API Gateway lacks the capability to directly facilitate API strategy development or user onboarding workflows."
"The tool's UI requires time to understand."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"We would like to see an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."
"The tool needs improvement in UX."
"The technical support team's response time needs to be improved."
"Kong Enterprise needs to improve its pricing, which starts at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Pricing should be based on API usage rather than monthly. It should improve its documentation as well."
"They could focus more on pricing."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The OS upgrades are not as frequent as they should be and they are bulky."
"Because it is open-source, it should be less expensive than others."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 18 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kong Gateway Enterprise writes "Provides role-based access control and can be easily customized with Lua script". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and IBM API Connect, whereas Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee, Apache APISIX and 3scale API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Kong Gateway Enterprise report.
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