We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Tyk 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."It allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them."
"This solution gives you a unified way to have your API accessed."
"It is a stable solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the load balancing with the circuit-breaker function."
"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."
"It is a good product for API management."
"The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security."
"The scalability is very good. That was a key factor in the selection, like how it could be pushed to high volume and scalability, which seemed to be very good."
"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"Its performance and scalability could be better compared to one of its competitors."
"Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function."
"The solution could improve signature validation."
"There are certain restrictions that cannot be implemented without web access."
"Amazon API Gateway needs to focus on minimizing latency."
"I believe that there could be more features associated with analytics since it is an area where the product lacks."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed."
"In terms of our usage, the main area of concern is that they tend to build enhancements slightly ahead of the considerations for what those enhancements and extensions are. So it could be slightly better communication with the customer base that would be my main issue with them."
"It is a young product and does not have the kind of brand recognition that would make it a more popular solution with our clients."
"I would like to see some additional features like having some extensions for .NET core because we use it for our back-end language."
"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."
"We ran it for a while, but then we decided to move away from Tyk, because Tyk's cloud version, the SaaS version, has a significant limitation of limited flexibility, so you can't program very much."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Tyk is ranked 17th in API Management with 6 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Tyk is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tyk writes "Simple to install, has many features, but lacks support for multiple programming languages". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Akana API Management, whereas Tyk is most compared with Apache APISIX, Traefik Enterprise, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management and WSO2 API Manager. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Tyk report.
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