We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon API Gateway has a slight edge in this comparison because it received higher marks than Mulesoft Anypoint API in the setup and pricing categories.
"It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"What I like best about Amazon API Gateway is that it's simple to use, easy to set up, and you can quickly get it up and running. It's a very user-friendly solution. I also didn't experience any issues in terms of Amazon API Gateway interface, integration, or monitoring. The solution runs smoothly."
"The initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes."
"The most valuable feature in Amazon API Gateway is the itinerary release."
"The solution is solid, robust, and scalable."
"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."
"It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The solution has been very stable."
"Technical support has been helpful."
"The developer portal is easy to integrate. It is easy to use, easy to integrate, and I like the developer portal."
"The security features are good. It's easy to configure the end-to-end integration with existing applications."
"The most effective features of Anypoint API Manager for policy enforcement include security enforcement, rate limiting, client enforcement, traffic control, service level agreement policies, and caching policies."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"When using the Mulesoft Anypoint Platform, it has a wide range of connectors that are readily available to connect with the multiple applications."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"If I take into consideration the past three to four years, during which I used the tool, I would say that some missing and external configurations were not possible in the product, and it was a bit difficult to manage."
"Amazon API Gateway is not as complete as Apigee and needs to be improved by adding more features to become a more robust application."
"I believe better governance and monitoring features would be beneficial."
"There should be more pricing options or certain discounts for the education sector."
"It is not a very scalable solution."
"Their studio performance is very slow, it requires a lot of memory, and should be improved."
"Migrating any existing middleware platform to Mulesoft is difficult because of the transformation, conversion and integration involved. Better tools are needed to achieve quicker time to market."
"The API gateway and API runtime are too heavy, which means that it is not suitable for microservices."
"Licensing costs should be reduced, it's quite expensive."
"The pricing is quite expensive. It should be adjusted to make it more affordable for users."
"MuleSoft has advanced features but is slower."
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Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "Responsive technical support, low tickets issued showing great stability, and limitless expansion". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Apigee, IBM API Connect, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager report.
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