We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and IBM API Connect 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."It is very helpful, with our API-based applications."
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."
"It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway."
"It is a stable solution."
"This solution is useful for making new APIs."
"The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"The initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes."
"It's flexible. It was valuable."
"The most valuable features are stability and security."
"IBM API Connect is a good product, and their technical support is excellent."
"The solution offers a pretty good SLA."
"The centralized management: this provides a management module that can deploy and apply security policies to all APIs, including all the gateways that are deployed on-premises and on any cloud because the gateway component can run at a VMware or in a Kubernetes cluster."
"The management of the API and API portal is good."
"It has all of the tools that are needed for the specific mission."
"In-built policies and security functions."
"The gateway is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"The solution could improve signature validation."
"Its performance and scalability could be better compared to one of its competitors."
"There should be more videos and documentation about the new features that are released every month."
"The integration could be improved."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"When working with XML payloads, there can be issues due to the lack of a seamless connection between API Gateway and Lambda functions."
"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."
"We have asked IBM for scalability and for some other features that we wanted. We had a dialogue with them and in the end, they have agreed to provide us with features related to API setup and security."
"In terms of what needs improvement, some of the product documentation could be better."
"The integration of an API gateway that implements the sidecar pattern, which can be deployed in cloud applications, and expose the microservices directly in each pod, this can be more decentralized components."
"It should be cheaper."
"Possible improvement is mainly around having more of the cloud oriented architecture bringing stability in adding new capabilities around security."
"The implementation process could benefit from improvements, as it may take some time to become accustomed to the deployment."
"The initial setup and installation could be easier."
"There are some performance issues and issues related to asynchronous APIs."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 32 reviews while IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while IBM API Connect is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and 3scale API Management, whereas IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Kong Enterprise. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. IBM API Connect report.
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