We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Microsoft Azure API Management based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure is highly regarded for its stability, integration capabilities, and user-friendliness, whereas Amazon is appreciated for its flexibility and ease of use. Azure users express a desire for lower licensing fees, improved integration, and enhanced performance, while Amazon users seek better monitoring and security features. Azure's pricing is considered reasonable but could be more cost-effective, while Amazon's pricing is generally acceptable. The quality of Azure's technical support varies, while Amazon's support is generally satisfactory.
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The product is stable."
"In terms of most valuable features, it would say that it is really easy to start working with it."
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."
"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."
"The product is really good when it comes to API lifecycle management, and it is not just something that includes the balancing part or the security aspect but also the routing and the fallback mechanism."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"In terms of scalability, I haven't encountered any issues with API Gateway. We've significantly increased our traffic from hitting it once or twice a minute to now hitting it ten to fifteen times within a minute. In an hour, we're receiving hundreds of hits. So, it's performing excellently."
"The Application Gateway we have found to be the most useful in Microsoft Azure API Management. We have integrated the Microsoft Azure API Management with Application Gateway. Application Gateway is a type of load balancer that we are using for the high availability of our API calls."
"The integration with Azure Active Directory is a good security feature for authentication and authorization. There is multifactor authentication. You can also use all of the Azure AD features integrated with API Management."
"It's easy to use compared to other products. It's easy to set up."
"The most valuable features are the API and integrations."
"The mediation and translation from SOAP to REST technology makes it possible to open up legacy systems that couldn't be opened before."
"We're pretty much using all of the monetizations features out of the API manager so we can put up a portal and have a dev portal and then a prod portal and do rate limiting."
"The tool helps to manage APIs."
"The stability and performance are good. It is easy to install, and it scales well too."
"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."
"Its support for SAM integration could be made more accessible."
"The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"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."
"Amazon API Gateway can improve the user interface in some areas it could be more polished."
"They could include more support tools in the product."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"There are certain restrictions that cannot be implemented without web access."
"The portal where we publish the APIs could be improved. Maybe this is because we didn't configure it. It is quite easy to bypass API management because we have a lot of information shared on the portal, where we publish our APIs. I worry there is potential for a security breach in the API publishing. There needs to be more security available on terms of the way we publish them."
"This solution is only available as a cloud-based deployment and it would be very helpful to have an on-premises version."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms, as well as increased security."
"The scalability of this solution could be improved. The volume which the API Management task service can handle needs to be improved. Cost wise, this solution could be optimized."
"Microsoft Azure API Management needs to improve stability."
"One of the most important improvements for us would be if it supported the HTTP/3 version and new protocol over a quick connection."
"Sometimes when immediate support is required, it isn't available."
"I'd like to have better flexibility and more capabilities."
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Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 67 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure API Management 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 Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise, IBM API Connect and WSO2 API Manager. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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