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."It allowed us to publish and replace pre-essential transactions in one place, with a uniformity in terms of control and policies."
"Good interface, intuitive solution."
"The tool's authentication mechanism is easy to implement. We had to define a few parameters."
"I like API Management's ability to do hybrid cloud stuff."
"This solution is very flexible, and it's very compatible with the other Azure products."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure API Management is monitoring. When compared with Apigee, I prefer Microsoft Azure API Management."
"It is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its importing and publishing."
"I like the API Management functions."
"There were no scalability issues."
"The tool helps to manage APIs."
"Akana API Management needs to improve its documentation."
"The product has new features that we are going to implement in the next few months, such as API management and analytic reporting."
"Lacks an integrated billing feature."
"Azure is our most expensive resource; it's costly."
"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."
"The solution's integration suite needs improvement."
"The licensing tiers can be misleading."
"One of the most important improvements for us would be if it supported the HTTP/3 version and new protocol over a quick connection."
"I rate the technical support from Microsoft Azure API Management a four out of five."
"The portal where we publish the APIs could be improved. Maybe this is because we didn't configure it. It is quite easy to bypass API management because we have a lot of information shared on the portal, where we publish our APIs. I worry there is potential for a security breach in the API publishing. There needs to be more security available on terms of the way we publish them."
"The licensing fees should be cheaper."
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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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