We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise 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."This solution gives you a unified way to have your API accessed."
"This solution is useful for making new APIs."
"The initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes."
"The solution is stable."
"One of the most valuable aspects of API Gateway is its native integration with AWS services."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"It is very helpful, with our API-based applications."
"Amazon stack is easy to use in combination with other Amazon services, so it was a logical continuity."
"Protocol transformation is the most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise."
"The route limiting feature is very valuable."
"The features I like include ease of operation and implementation in a cloud environment, the dashboarding features for API statistics, and the user-friendly developer portal."
"The solution's technical support is good and fast in terms of responsiveness and problem-solving skills."
"It boasts remarkable speed and stability, and these qualities, particularly the gateway's resilience, are standout features for me."
"This is a solid intrusion prevention system that combines a firewall and antivirus in a single solution."
"The solution provides good performance."
"There are a few features that I like about Kong when it comes to authentication and authorization. Specifically, being able to use Kong for role-based access control (RBAC), and then further being able to integrate the RBAC mechanism with our enterprise directory, was very useful."
"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."
"Amazon API Gateway is not as complete as Apigee and needs to be improved by adding more features to become a more robust application."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"The integration could be improved."
"Their support services come at a considerable cost, leaving room for improvement."
"I believe that there could be more features associated with analytics since it is an area where the product lacks."
"The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There should be an easier way to integrate with other solutions, even though it's the same API solution layer. Comparability will be a good improvement."
"Kong is meant for north-south communications, so it will be interesting to see what solutions they can come up with in the realms of east-west communications, service-to-service communications, and Zero Trust architecture. I believe that if they can provide for these areas, then they will be able to solve the overall integration and security concerns for microservices architecture in general."
"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."
"Kong Enterprise has decided not to support the web portal feature anymore, but I think that feature should stay in the on-premises solution."
"The solution should include policy features that are available in other solutions like MuleSoft API manager but missing in Kong Enterprise."
"Understanding the configurations and knowing what needs to be done can be a bit difficult initially."
"The OS upgrades are not as frequent as they should be and they are bulky."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 20 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Kong Gateway Enterprise 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 Kong Gateway Enterprise writes "Provides role-based access control and can be easily customized with Lua script". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and IBM API Connect, whereas Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee, Apache APISIX and 3scale API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Kong Gateway Enterprise report.
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