"It is very helpful, with our API-based applications."
"It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway."
"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."
"It's flexible. It was valuable."
"Amazon stack is easy to use in combination with other Amazon services, so it was a logical continuity."
"In terms of most valuable features, it would say that it is really easy to start working with it."
"I like everything about it. It provides the security we need."
"Kong Enterprise has excellent plugin support."
"Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."
"The integration could be improved."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"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 user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"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 an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."
"They could focus more on pricing."
"Because it is open-source, it should be less expensive than others."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 9th in API Management with 6 reviews while Kong Enterprise is ranked 10th in API Management with 3 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.0, while Kong Enterprise is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Secure, easy to use, includes WAF rules, has responsive technical support, and provides excellent documentation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kong Enterprise writes "Developers and Architects favourite, great for initial adaptors, companies scaling up". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Apigee, Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager, WSO2 API Manager and Layer7 API Management, whereas Kong Enterprise is most compared with Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee and Layer7 API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Kong Enterprise report.
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