We performed a comparison between Akana API Management and Amazon API Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."The tool's authentication mechanism is easy to implement. We had to define a few parameters."
"It allowed us to publish and replace pre-essential transactions in one place, with a uniformity in terms of control and policies."
"Good interface, intuitive solution."
"Amazon API Gateway facilitates our serverless architecture, particularly with Lambda, by allowing us to perform various tasks. For instance, Lambda functions authorize API calls, execute multiple workloads, and integrate with other services like Azure and Kubernetes. Additionally, we leverage Lambda functions behind the Amazon API Gateway to query databases, process data, and interact with different systems."
"It's flexible. It was valuable."
"All information and data needs to be sanitized before it enters a private domain and we use this solution to do this."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"Its security feature is the most valuable because it is mainly a security solution. It has easy authentication and authorization, and its integration is also useful."
"Akana API Management needs to improve its documentation."
"Lacks an integrated billing feature."
"The product has new features that we are going to implement in the next few months, such as API management and analytic reporting."
"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 API Gateway lacks the capability to directly facilitate API strategy development or user onboarding workflows."
"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."
"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 user interface, in general, can be better. The user interface for the entire Amazon cloud can be more friendly. There are some scenarios that are not really easy to manage and configure through the user interface."
"The solution could improve signature validation."
"There are certain restrictions that cannot be implemented without web access."
Akana API Management is ranked 27th in API Management with 3 reviews while Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews. Akana API Management is rated 8.4, while Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akana API Management writes "Authentication mechanism is easy to implement but improvement is needed in documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". Akana API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect, whereas Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee and WSO2 API Manager.
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