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.
"The most valuable feature is it has lots of integration."
"It allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent."
"Amazon API Gateway can integrate with ECS and Lambda."
"All information and data needs to be sanitized before it enters a private domain and we use this solution to do this."
"It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"One of the most valuable aspects of API Gateway is its native integration with AWS services."
"Access control is the most valuable aspect."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is better because it has a DevOps integration by default."
"The stability and performance are good. It is easy to install, and it scales well too."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure API Management is monitoring. When compared with Apigee, I prefer Microsoft Azure API Management."
"Azure API Management is an API gateway that can be used for different purposes, for example, to monetize APIs."
"The ease of use of the solution is excellent."
"The ease of setting up a new solution is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up a new solution and to deploy it to production."
"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."
"Since the first invocation of AWS Lambda takes more than 30 seconds because of Lambda's cold start, Amazon API Gateway blocks that resource, thereby aborting the invocation."
"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."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"I believe that there could be more features associated with analytics since it is an area where the product lacks."
"When working with XML payloads, there can be issues due to the lack of a seamless connection between API Gateway and Lambda functions."
"The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"Amazon API Gateway is not as complete as Apigee and needs to be improved by adding more features to become a more robust application."
"There are certain restrictions that cannot be implemented without web access."
"When you start with Azure API management, you also need to onboard the Azure console and the Azure cloud environment, which comes with a price."
"Microsoft Azure API Management needs to improve stability."
"Azure API Management could be improved with better integration with all of Microsoft's tools."
"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."
"Maybe the customization could be a bit better."
"Microsoft Azure API Management could improve by having better integration with third-party solutions."
"In the API you need to delete the suffix. It is annoying that you need to have a suffix. We can add a suffix at the API level, not at the operation level, and that could be improved on."
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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 68 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, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, 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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