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Amazon API Gateway vs Axway AMPLIFY API Management comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon API Gateway
Ranking in API Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Axway AMPLIFY API Management
Ranking in API Management
19th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Amazon API Gateway is 9.8%, down from 12.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Axway AMPLIFY API Management is 1.6%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
API Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon API Gateway9.8%
Axway AMPLIFY API Management1.6%
Other88.6%
API Management
 

Featured Reviews

SM
Head - Engineering ,Technology and Enterprise Architecture at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees
Faced challenges with audit trails and seek better user-level monitoring and control
Regarding built-in authorization, monitoring is quite substantial, and versioning systems is also what we are using. With Amazon API Gateway, we utilize a variety of deployment methods and services they provide, so monitoring services are the important parameter in API control from our side, allowing us to see how the APIs behave and how well they pick up the data from their respective sources. Integration with AWS Lambda has been beneficial since we have event controllers that help identify the APIs, which then call the API from the API services. We're managing this with events that are parameterized through API identification, mostly using Python in Lambda, which has inbuilt features to track API lifecycle parameters. The defined parameterized features in Amazon API Gateway help streamline API lifecycle management. Our AWS system admin team sets these configurations for us. The versioning number gets updated as we deploy revised API versions, which gets monitored on the API monitoring services. The cloud engineering team assists us as we are from a solutions development and deployment team. The importance of Amazon API Gateway's global API deployment for our application's performance is significant in terms of scalability and availability. Amazon API Gateway services have been very good, maintaining a 99.99 SLA, providing us confidence in the global deployment level as it is capable of handling various endpoint types, such as database sites and legacy systems.
AnkitSingh6 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Lead Analytics Engineer at a outsourcing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Comprehensive API management has improved monetization and streamlined secure integrations
Axway AMPLIFY API Management could be improved in terms of user interface and navigation, as it could be more user-friendly. There are no helping resources such as question marks or help icons to easily identify elements, making it difficult for new users to learn the platform without some form of training. The configuration and policy setups also require multiple steps, which complicates the process, and it would be easier if some steps could be skipped. Better analytics and reporting capabilities should provide improved trackability for API performance and consumer behavior. Documentation for advanced use cases would help reduce the learning curve. However, when trying to integrate with third parties, it can be quite difficult and requires a lot of authentication and authorization, which is better for security but poses challenges for new users trying to connect with a third party to transfer data between platforms. Additionally, the customization options for the dashboard are very limited, which restricts my ability to customize the entire dashboard meaningfully.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature in Amazon API Gateway is the itinerary release."
"Integrating API Gateway with other AWS services was easy. It worked out of the box, so it worked perfectly."
"This solution gives you a unified way to have your API accessed."
"All information and data needs to be sanitized before it enters a private domain and we use this solution to do this."
"It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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."
"This solution gives you end-to-end protection in what you're able to do, including certificate-based TLS from endpoints so you can protect the whole link and it will generate certificate keys for you."
"The UI and UX are quite good and easy to understand."
"Axway AMPLIFY API Management is niche technology that people prefer because it has emerged beautifully and has very nice support and enterprise-level features which are not provided by cloud Azure or AWS."
"My advice for others considering Axway AMPLIFY API Management is that if you want a comprehensive API management solution that includes a good dashboard with analytics, log functionality, monetization, and security, everything comes under one roof, making Axway AMPLIFY API Management a solid choice."
"This product is a ten when it comes to API management."
"The most valuable features are security enforcement and throttling."
"I would recommend the solution for other people who want to start using it."
"This platform can be highly scalable."
"For what we do, the API portal capability is the most valuable feature."
 

Cons

"There are features lacking in API Gateway, such as the timeout settings, which currently are set at 29 seconds."
"The way they manage the headers could be improved and made easier."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"The pricing could be improved. In cases where customers require real-time sync or real-time calling groups with IoT, the volume of data and time lag become a concern."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"I'd appreciate improvements in the user interface to make it more understandable, especially for new AWS users."
"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."
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"The product shows a lack of maturity. The setup is difficult, the tech support and community are lacking, and it is not very stable."
"I have experienced issues with Axway AMPLIFY API Management's stability at times, particularly when there are a large number of API calls."
"The portal still has room for improvement."
"I would improve performance because most of the time we have to send the API several times and then get the notification that the API is received."
"A significant area of improvement for Axway AMPLIFY API Management is the Amplify Central portal, which should help expose APIs on a webpage for potential customers."
"Ultimately, from a very high-level overview, cloud platforms or Kong could have a slight advantage when compared to Axway AMPLIFY API Management."
"Sometimes we find bugs where certain calls are not returning all the data we need."
"The API Mocking tools need to be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is expensive."
"Azure products are more cost-effective than AWS solutions"
"I rate the tool's price as seven on a scale of one to ten, where one means low price and ten means high price."
"The product is a little expensive."
"There are no licensing fees."
"The product can be described as a medium-priced solution, but its cost is higher than Azure."
"I am satisfied with the price."
"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."
"The solution is expensive. When you acquire a license you have full access to the solution, unlike other competitors such as Apigee X, where there are fragmented licenses. Some licenses only allow access to certain features while others allow access to more features. Upon procuring this solution's license, you will have full access to the solution, allowing you to experiment with all of its features."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
12%
Insurance Company
7%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise21
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Apigee or Amazon API Gateway?
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, ma...
How does Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager compare with Amazon API Gateway?
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 ...
Which is better - Azure API Management or Amazon API Gateway?
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 ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Axway AMPLIFY API Management?
Regarding the licensing, I don't fully understand it because there's an additional fee about it. The license was covered by the vendor, and we just paid for the API that we used.
What needs improvement with Axway AMPLIFY API Management?
I would improve performance because most of the time we have to send the API several times and then get the notification that the API is received. I'm not certain how accurate it is. The API is not...
What is your primary use case for Axway AMPLIFY API Management?
I can describe the use cases for what it can be used for because I was a project manager. We share APIs, modify, and check whether the API already sent it. They receive something, and when we modif...
 

Also Known As

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Vordel Application Gateway, Axway API Management Plus, Axway API Management, AMPLIFY API Management
 

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Sample Customers

Autodesk, Fox Digital Consumer Group, iFlix, UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), Miovision, Olympusat, PhotoVogue, Royale International Group, Veracode
Engie Group, Allianz
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