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API Gateway saves time and secures my infrastructure, allowing effective deployment.
Technical support is excellent, deserving a ten out of ten rating.
We encountered challenges accessing technical support channels, such as a need for a clear telephone number and chat sessions.
With the enterprise plan, there is a set SLA.
They are responsive and provide assistance even during production issues.
The customer service and support are cooperative and effective in providing insights and solutions during challenges.
In the past two years, I have been experiencing less assistance.
I have not experienced or seen the product going down or responding late.
Amazon API Gateway exhibits satisfying scalability.
If the business management agrees to scale out, it's easy and fast using coded infrastructure with Terraform scripts.
Adding extra Cassandra databases is complex.
Our applications are stable, owing partly to our architecture, which is spread across three regions.
I would rate its stability as nine out of ten.
Amazon API Gateway has proven to be very stable, with a stability rating of ten out of ten.
Apigee is stable, and we have had the system running on Apigee servers for more than four years without any stability issues.
A local version of the API Gateway would be beneficial for testing purposes without incurring extra costs.
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.
Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function.
Apigee only allows validation of transactions up to a four-hour period, which requires manual hovering over the date and time.
Analytics is one of the areas needing enhancement, specifically more visibility and control over traffic to improve capacity management and high availability.
Apigee should also incorporate these capabilities, especially in the on-premises version.
However, my understanding is that it easily goes to $14,000 or $15,000 USD each month for each account, and we have several such accounts.
It is a really cheap product, but if used incorrectly, it can become expensive.
It is expensive.
Apigee is perceived as slightly costly compared to other tools in the market.
Apigee is high-priced, suitable for large enterprises where the benefit aligns with the cost.
Apigee is costlier compared to other solutions.
It simplifies exposing our APIs externally and inherently adds a layer of security, which I see as a positive impact from the product.
works well for defining different states for different customers based on their purchase plans
A most valuable feature of Amazon API Gateway is how quickly we can connect to backend services and have APIs accessible from anywhere.
It handles security and other headaches, keeping our database and servers secure.
It provides all the necessary capabilities for current technologies, enabling communication and translation between protocols, along with supporting stringent security features.
The features for API security have been significant with Apigee.
Apigee provides catalog management, onboarding of new customers, an API portal, and security features.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Amazon API Gateway | 12.1% |
| Apigee | 8.1% |
| 3scale API Management | 2.0% |
| Other | 77.8% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 6 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 2 |
| Large Enterprise | 5 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 13 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 13 |
| Large Enterprise | 21 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 20 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 9 |
| Large Enterprise | 65 |
3scale is an API management platform that delivers flexible, highly scalable solutions to package, distribute, control, and monetize your APIs, giving you the power to make the most of your API program.
3scale delivers centralized API management features through a distributed, cloud-hosted layer. The platform includes built-in features to help you build a more successful API program, including access control, rate limits, payment gateway integration, and developer experience tools.
Amazon API Gateway stands out for its seamless integration with AWS, ease of use, scalability, and support for secure API management, benefiting from a serverless architecture that helps control costs while ensuring efficient backend connectivity.
Amazon API Gateway offers significant capabilities for managing APIs, integrating smoothly with AWS Lambda for serverless operations. It provides robust security with authentication, authorization, and input validation. The gateway supports API traffic management, rate limiting, and enhances accessibility while facing areas for potential improvements in pricing, documentation, interface usability, monitoring, security, latency, analytics, and debugging tools. Expanded integration features and AI-based development aids are desirable.
What features make Amazon API Gateway effective?Amazon API Gateway is frequently employed in industries like mobile development and public services to ensure secure, efficient interactions between front-end and back-end systems. It's instrumental in managing APIs, integrating microservices, and offering controlled API access, notably in environments requiring robust security and service exposure.
Apigee is a platform for developing and managing APIs. Apigee offers an interface for your core services by wrapping them with a proxy layer which is then accessed by other developers. With Apigee, you can design and build APIs and then securely share their services and data without exposing any code.
Because app developers make HTTP requests to an API proxy rather than directly to your services, your services are separated from the developers. All the developer needs to know is the URL of the API proxy endpoint, necessary query parameters, authorization credentials (if they exist), and the response data format.
The API proxy isolates the app developer from your backend service. Therefore, you are free to change the service implementation if the public API remains consistent. By maintaining a consistent frontend API, existing client apps will continue to work regardless of changes on the backend.
Key capabilities of the Apigee API management platform include:
Reviews from Real Users:
Apigee stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its rich developer portal, its advanced analytics, and its central monitoring system.
Carlos R., a software architect at Caja Los Andes writes, “The central monitoring feature is the most valuable. It also provides security for the APIs and high availability for our use cases. Apigee is the best product in the industry in comparison to other API management solutions. It helps in fast development, which is a top point. It also supports a lot of industry standards and has excellent documentation.”
An associate vice president at a tech services company notes, “The analytics function and the developer portal are the two valuable features of Apigee. The analytics part is very good, and the developer portal is quite rich in features. The authentication mechanisms are quite easily built into Apigee, which is something that most of the other products have also now started supporting.”
