We performed a comparison between Akana API Management and Amazon API Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."Good interface, intuitive solution."
"It allowed us to publish and replace pre-essential transactions in one place, with a uniformity in terms of control and policies."
"The tool's authentication mechanism is easy to implement. We had to define a few parameters."
"The most valuable feature is it has lots of integration."
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."
"It is a stable solution."
"It is easy to set up. It is also quick to deploy."
"Amazon API Gateway facilitates our serverless architecture, particularly with Lambda, by allowing us to perform various tasks. For instance, Lambda functions authorize API calls, execute multiple workloads, and integrate with other services like Azure and Kubernetes. Additionally, we leverage Lambda functions behind the Amazon API Gateway to query databases, process data, and interact with different systems."
"One of the most valuable aspects of API Gateway is its native integration with AWS services."
"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."
"Amazon API Gateway can integrate with ECS and Lambda."
"Lacks an integrated billing feature."
"The product has new features that we are going to implement in the next few months, such as API management and analytic reporting."
"Akana API Management needs to improve its documentation."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"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."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"When working with XML payloads, there can be issues due to the lack of a seamless connection between API Gateway and Lambda functions."
"Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function."
Akana API Management is ranked 28th in API Management with 3 reviews while Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews. Akana API Management is rated 8.4, while Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akana API Management writes "Authentication mechanism is easy to implement but improvement is needed in documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". Akana API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect, whereas Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee and WSO2 API Manager.
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