We performed a comparison between Akana API Management and Microsoft Azure API Management 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."
"Ease of integration into the entire Microsoft environment."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is a good, comprehensive solution for enterprise implementation."
"What I like most about Microsoft Azure API Management is that it's flexible and user-friendly. The solution also has rich documentation and guides available, so users can configure and use it."
"Everything is already available and ready to operate without a lot of preparation work."
"The API management is very good."
"Access control is the most valuable aspect."
"The initial setup is not that complex, but there are certain challenges."
"Microsoft Azure API Management has many valuable features. One is the developer portal, that's very useful for teams. The tool also provides layers of security. I also found the caching, automatic documentation, and version management functionalities most valuable."
"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."
"They're trying to implement versioning and trying to be able to manage different versions of your API all at the same time, but they're not doing that just quite right yet."
"If I compare this solution to others I have used in other phases of my life, having APIM being an Azure resource, it is easy to configure and deploy. However, this conversely reduced the flexibility. The difficulty is how do we configure it in a manner that a larger enterprise would probably want it to be. This creates a bit more complexity, working around the constraints of the resource itself. If comparing it to other solutions, it is more of a legacy design with an older approach. The various level components are still around resembling an on-premise type of design similar to other solutions, such as Apigee or Mulesoft. They are still predominantly carrying some legacy design. Which might be suited for organizations where they have a more complex network layout. APIM is easy to deploy, but on the other side of that, it is constrained to how Azure has designed it to be."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is lagging behind Apigee and should also have a better CICD process."
"Microsoft Azure API Management could improve the documentation. The documentation feels like marketing information and not sufficient technical information. Your easiest option is to purchase services from a Microsoft partner and this is their marketing."
"The documentation could be improved for the customer."
"Technical support could be more flexible and try to meet the client's needs a bit more effectively."
"One of the most important improvements for us would be if it supported the HTTP/3 version and new protocol over a quick connection."
"Microsoft Azure API Management could improve by having better integration with third-party solutions."
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Akana API Management is ranked 28th in API Management with 3 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. Akana API Management is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. 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 Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Akana API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect.
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