We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Layer7 API Management 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."Amazon stack is easy to use in combination with other Amazon services, so it was a logical continuity."
"The solution is solid, robust, and scalable."
"One of the most valuable aspects of API Gateway is its native integration with AWS services."
"In terms of most valuable features, it would say that it is really easy to start working with it."
"The solution is a managed service and requires minimal configuration, which makes it easy to launch an API."
"This solution is useful for making new APIs."
"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."
"The initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes."
"It can be scaled as we need. And it can be used in different regions. We have different data centers in the U.S. and Beijing. We use it on-premise, on-cloud, and it can be hosted and used at any place and scaled across the regions."
"A big win for CA was the expertise of the local country support plus having support staff on site in a matter of hours, if required."
"The security checking authentication is our primary use case for this solution."
"The Gateway can front our APIs very easily."
"The product supports more than just HTTP protocols; it also caters to JMS and FTP protocols."
"From a security standpoint, it works great. It is the right solution for us. It's lightweight, a software-appliance configuration which was easy to deploy and configure."
"It allows us to keep clear traceability of the changes made in each of our APIs."
"API Management makes dealing with APIs easier. It'll help you to move ahead on your API application journey. The solution allows developers to create more advanced security policies"
"The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"The tool's UI requires time to understand."
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"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 solution could improve signature validation."
"It's hard to configure. There's a lot of options but it's very hard, it's very confusing."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"The Portal lacks maturity. Since the move from Portal 3.x to 4.x, a lot of features were removed. It is slowly coming back. I can see a lot of changes are done in the "background" to decouple components and make it more flexible. Those changes are just not getting to the UI side quick enough."
"The entire lifecycle management approach needs improvement: from the API management, development, deployment, some of the settings around the quotas, and some security policy applications, etc. for the APIs. We found the Apigee platform a lot more robust in that area."
"The setup was not as straightforward as it should have been. Support should be improved."
"There is still room for improvement for the CA API Developer Portal. It is still not on par with what the competencies are."
"One specific feature that we need is the ability to authenticate directly to the server with API data. It's not complex nowadays. This is a feature that we need and CA doesn't have it."
"CA double up portal is a pain. It is something that we are struggling with right now."
"They should incorporate deeper monitoring features into the solution to make the offering more complete. Doing so would help to showcase traffic patterns and usage to better engage customers and partners proactively. It would also help with API management and capacity planning."
"There is room for improvement in terms of innovation and investment, especially when compared to other leading products in the market."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management and IBM API Connect. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Layer7 API Management report.
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