We performed a comparison between 3scale API Management and Amazon API Gateway 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."3scale API Management's best feature is API management."
"It's good that they aren't adding a lot of features like ESP, etc. It's okay with just being a gateway."
"The solution is quite lightweight, and the installation is very easy. It's like a two-click installation."
"The gateway is the most valuable feature because it makes it possible for us to gather all traffic into one proxy, which is a good thing."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and security features."
"The standard deployment is very simple."
"I like the API automation."
"The product is stable."
"Amazon API Gateway is a very fast solution."
"One of the most valuable aspects of API Gateway is its native integration with AWS services."
"The initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes."
"It is a stable solution."
"In terms of most valuable features, it would say that it is really easy to start working with it."
"It is very helpful, with our API-based applications."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent."
"The most valuable feature is it has lots of integration."
"It would be helpful to improve the customization features so that the customer can do it based on their own needs."
"I believe the CMS part of it has room for improvement though. That is where you write a couple of things if you want to publish your API. It's based on liquid scripting, which doesn't seem like the obvious ones to script with."
"The product is not that flexible for developers. It's less flexible and rigid. It's not easy to make changes or customize it."
"We tried to use the portal, but we decided that it wasn't enough. The content management system (CMS) is not easy to use if you want to customize things, and it's hard to get someone who has the knowledge to work with the CMS."
"What I'd like to improve in 3scale API Management is its route-limiting feature. Currently, I don't know how to do that effectively on the solution, but in Kong, I know how to do it, so I would love to see route-limiting being easily done on 3scale API Management. It would also be good if there was some authentication that you could do from 3scale API Management because Kong offers that functionality out of the box. What I'd love to see in the next release of 3scale API Management is the ability to integrate more plug-ins easily onto the platform, so you'll be able to extend it, and even do customs management. If Red Hat could offer that extension where it allows the internal organization where 3scale API Management is deployed on-premise to integrate its tools on top of 3scale API Management and provide an API for that, that will make the solution very powerful."
"What was suggested by Red Hat was a crucial part of the configuration, but when we started to ask about the supportability of this configuration, Red Hat said only some parts of the configuration would be supported."
"The user experience could be better. The developer portal is too complex and hard to configure."
"3scale API Management only supports restful APIs and doesn't support SOAP."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"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."
"Amazon API Gateway is not as complete as Apigee and needs to be improved by adding more features to become a more robust application."
"They could include more support tools in the product."
"There are certain restrictions that cannot be implemented without web access."
"Its performance and scalability could be better compared to one of its competitors."
"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 only real problem is that you have to know a lot about what is outside of the API gateway in order to make the best use of it."
3scale API Management is ranked 11th in API Management with 10 reviews while Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews. 3scale API Management is rated 7.4, while Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of 3scale API Management writes "Useful as it lets you add a backend to the product, it integrates well with clusters, and it has exceptional technical support, but route-limiting isn't easy to do on it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". 3scale API Management is most compared with Kong Gateway Enterprise, Apigee, IBM API Connect, WSO2 API Manager and Microsoft Azure API Management, whereas Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Axway AMPLIFY API Management. See our 3scale API Management vs. Amazon API Gateway report.
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