We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and WSO2 API Manager based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon API Gateway finishes slightly ahead in this comparison. Amazon is very flexible and offers very good integrations, especially within the Amazon ecosystem. Many WSO2 API Manager users feel the solution has some stability and performance issues, making it less desirable.
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"This solution is useful for making new APIs."
"The solution is a managed service and requires minimal configuration, which makes it easy to launch an API."
"The product is stable."
"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."
"Its security feature is the most valuable because it is mainly a security solution. It has easy authentication and authorization, and its integration is also useful."
"The solution is stable."
"All information and data needs to be sanitized before it enters a private domain and we use this solution to do this."
"WSO2 API Manager has a user-friendly model."
"Based on the information I have, the solution's most valuable feature is its capability of implementing custom solutions."
"The product is easy to use."
"The user interface is easy to navigate, and the documentation is extensive. It's open-source, so everything is available, and we can create what we need. That's not necessarily a feature, but it's an advantage."
"Helped us to quickly publish our Microservice APIs and enforcing different policies against them, it comes up with features like Security, Throttling policy and it provides complete access to customize API's which actually saves development effort and time."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is open-source."
"It's a good product."
"A lower price would definitely be an improvement."
"Amazon API Gateway is not as complete as Apigee and needs to be improved by adding more features to become a more robust application."
"The solution could improve signature validation."
"Like most Amazon services, and this one's the same, you're expected to effectively do your own support, and any other support is by emails, so it's quite limited."
"There should be more videos and documentation about the new features that are released every month."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"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."
"The user interface, in general, can be better. The user interface for the entire Amazon cloud can be more friendly. There are some scenarios that are not really easy to manage and configure through the user interface."
"Providing easy configuration for email and SMS notifications, layout and customization of admin and developer landing pages."
"The price and the complexities attached to the solution are two areas of concern where improvements are required."
"I think they could greatly improve the general UX with their solutions."
"We had some problems with the reverse proxy not being able to invoke fully qualified domain names, so we have to build some custom scripts to solve this issue."
"The product hasn’t been updated for some time."
"From what I have experienced from the versions I have tried, they could improve on the multi-tenant environments to allow some kind of SSO single sign-on between tenant."
"They are developing another platform called Choreo that allows you to create API itself using the WSO2 programming language Ballerina. It would be great if they added a direct connection between Choreo and API Manager, that would be great. I think they are working on that, but I'm not sure."
"WSO2 API Manager could improve the API approval system."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Microsoft Azure API Management, Apache APISIX and 3scale API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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