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Amazon API Gateway vs. Apigee
March 2024
Executive Summary
Updated on May 17, 2022

We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Apigee based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.

  • Ease of Deployment: Users report that the initial setup and deployment of both solutions is straightforward and fast.

  • Features: Users of both products are happy with their stability, security, and scalability. Amazon API Gateway users say it is flexible and easy to use but that its UI needs enhancements. Apigee users like its analytics feature and say it has many customization options. Several users mention that it lacks integration options.
  • Pricing: Amazon API Gateway users say that it is a low-cost solution, whereas
    Apigee users feel it is an expensive product.
  • Service and Support: Most users of both solutions report being satisfied with the level of the support they receive.

  • ROI: Amazon API Gateway users do not mention ROI. Apigee users report seeing an ROI.

Comparison Results: Amazon API Gateway has a slight edge in this comparison due to it being the less expensive solution.

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Q&A Highlights
Question: Which solution is better: AWS API Gateway or Apigee?
Answer: AWS API Gateway and Apigee are popular API Management platforms for managing APIs in a hybrid environment, and below are some of their fundamental differences: AWS API Gateway Pros: AWS API Gateway is a managed service, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) taking care of the underlying infrastructure. The platform can be scaled to meet an organization's needs. AWS API Gateway is cost-effective, especially for small and medium-sized organizations. Cons: AWS API Gateway offers limited features compared to other API Management platforms. It is not as flexible as some other API Management platforms. Apigee Pros: Apigee is a flexible and customizable platform for your organization's needs. The platform offers many features, including API design, development, testing, and monitoring. Apigee supports hybrid environments, meaning you can manage APIs hosted on-premises and in the cloud. Cons: Apigee is not a managed service, meaning you are responsible for the underlying infrastructure. It is more costly than AWS API Gateway, especially for small and medium-sized organizations. If your customer is looking for a managed service that is scalable and cost-effective, then AWS API Gateway may be the better choice. If your customer prefers a flexible platform with a wide range of features, then Apigee may be a good option. When choosing an API Management platform, please keep these things in mind: For anyone unfamiliar with API management, AWS API Gateway may be a better choice than Apigee, a more complex platform. AWS API Gateway is typically more cost-effective than Apigee.
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Featured Review
Prasanth MG
Has efficient scalability and robust authentication features
We decided to connect our Lambda functions to the solution. Its authentication feature helps us secure the APIs.
Anonymous User
Has improved our performance with great features such as out-of-the-box policies
Apigee is a front-layer gateway and it helps to improve our overall performance. We can repair requests and respond to vacant needs and that's a... Read more →
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Pros
"It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway.""The solution is user-friendly.""It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings.""This solution is useful for making new APIs.""It is a stable solution.""The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support.""Amazon API Gateway is a very fast solution.""The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent."

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"The features I found most valuable are how the APIs are published, the whole process of finalizing the API, and then controlling it.""The security provided by the solution is excellent.""The following features are most valuable: API Management, Analytics, Quota, and the Developer Portal.""Apigee is a strong-featured solution. It leads in Gartner Quadrant ratings and it is a full-slated API solution that has the features that an API gateway requires.""The most valuable features are scalability and technical support.""It is easy to set up. It is on Google Platform, and there are multiple deployment models they support, which is great.""The developer portal is very useful to customers.""The initial setup was easy - there was an onboarding document with steps that we followed."

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Cons
"Amazon API Gateway can improve the user interface in some areas it could be more polished.""The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form.""They could include more support tools in the product.""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.""We would like to see more UI-based monitoring.""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.""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.""Its performance and scalability could be better compared to one of its competitors."

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"Since it is based on various open sourced projects, we might have to depend on the fixes provided by those components rather than Apigee directly fixing the issues.""The user interface could be better. It could be easier to navigate and more user-friendly.""They should improve the monitoring tools for on-premises environments.""When it comes to the rate limit, we don't have a specific category for rate limits for a particular customer.""Unlike WSA, Apigee does not have a partnership model, something which makes it a bit easier for companies such as ours to go with the former solution.""One feature they have to invest time into is the developer portal they use.""I would like to see the support improved. I think the time frame should be shorter for responses when it comes to technical support. This is not the ideal situation you want to be in when you need support.""I would like them to add features, such as caching and mediation policies."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This is a pay-per-use service, where you only pay for what you use."
  • "Fees are volume-based."
  • "There are no licensing fees."
  • "I am satisfied with the price."
  • "There is an annual licensing cost to use Amazon API Gateway."
  • "Amazon API Gateway has various pricing plans, but I cannot give the exact cost, though I can say that it's expensive. On a scale of one to five, I'd rate the pricing for Amazon API Gateway as two, as the solution is one of the most expensive products in the market for API management."
  • "We use all open-source technology."
  • "Since it's a serverless solution, Amazon API Gateway is not so expensive."

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  • "As most of the customers say, the tool is a bit expensive."
  • "Based on your usage of the APIs you can take a decision to go with either an on-cloud or OPDK version. Get in touch with the sales representatives of Apigee."
  • "Since it was acquired by Google, we can get a license based on our requirements and the cost level will depend on cloud access and support."
  • "Pricing options need to be chosen on a case-by-case basis."
  • "The cost of the licensing is based on the number of API calls that are made."
  • "It is not suited for small companies. It's expensive."
  • "It is more expensive when you compare to open-source products or other vendors."
  • "We have a contract for three years. I don't know the cost."

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    Questions from the Community
    Which is better - Apigee or Amazon API Gateway?
    Top Answer:Amazon API Gateway is a platform that supports the creation and publication of API for web applications. The platform can support thousands of simultaneous API calls, and it provides monitoring… more »
    How does Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager compare with Amazon API Gateway?
    Top Answer:I have found that Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager is the best integration tool out there for API management. It is easy to implement and learn; it provides several options for deployment, (including… more »
    Which is better - Azure API Management or Amazon API Gateway?
    Top Answer:If you use Azure products, API Management is a great solution. It solves many of the problems of externalizing web services. For example, when you need versioning, establish a developer portal and… more »
    How does Apigee differ from Azure API Management?
    Top Answer: Apigee offers both cloud-based and on-prem options while Microsoft Azure API Management currently only offers a cloud-based solution. Both solutions are easy to use. Apigee allows for the ability… more »
    What do you like most about Apigee?
    Top Answer: Its flexibility allows seamless management of different products, showcasing scalability to handle extensive solutions.
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    What needs improvement with Apigee?
    Top Answer:Our focus on improvement primarily revolves around security, differing somewhat from the Connect endpoint. We've encountered challenges in leveraging Connect functionality, prompting us to explore… more »
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    3rd
    out of 64 in API Management
    Views
    26,199
    Comparisons
    22,937
    Reviews
    21
    Average Words per Review
    429
    Rating
    8.5
    2nd
    out of 64 in API Management
    Views
    33,684
    Comparisons
    24,409
    Reviews
    33
    Average Words per Review
    397
    Rating
    8.1
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    Overview

    Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can create an API that acts as a "front door" for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your back-end services, such as workloads running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), code running on AWS Lambda, or any Web application.

    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:

    • Security: Protect APIs, messages, and backends with configurable policies such as OAuth, API key verification, XML/JSON threat protection, and access control.

    • API gateway: Secure and mediate the traffic between clients and backends, and between a company’s APIs and the developers who use the APIs.

    • Developer portal: Attract and engage application developers, enabling them to discover, explore, purchase, and test APIs and register to access and use the APIs.

    • API console: The console helps developers learn and work with APIs.

    • API lifecycle management: Manage the process of designing, developing, publishing, deploying, and versioning APIs.

    • Automated documentation: Automate the development of API documentation and software development kits.

    • Machine learning: Utilize machine learning and analytics to generate actionable insights and reports.
    • API monitoring: Apigee offers monitoring tools for API troubleshooting, security, and optimization.

    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.”

    Sample Customers
    Autodesk, Fox Digital Consumer Group, iFlix, UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), Miovision, Olympusat, PhotoVogue, Royale International Group, Veracode
    Adobe, advance.net, Amadeus, AT&T, Bechtel, Belly, Burberry, Chegg, Citrix, Dell, eBay, Equifax, GameStop, First Data, Globe, HCSC, Intralinks, Kao, Meredith, Mitchell, Orange, Pearson
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company25%
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Retailer20%
    Insurance Company5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Insurance Company6%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company31%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Retailer14%
    Insurance Company10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm22%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Insurance Company6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise47%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise68%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise69%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise74%
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    Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Apigee is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, WSO2 API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management, whereas Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, WSO2 API Manager, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Layer7 API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Apigee report.

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