We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Apigee 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 due to it being the less expensive solution.
"The most valuable feature in Amazon API Gateway is the itinerary release."
"In terms of most valuable features, it would say that it is really easy to start working with it."
"It is a stable solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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 allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them."
"One of the most valuable aspects of API Gateway is its native integration with AWS services."
"Amazon stack is easy to use in combination with other Amazon services, so it was a logical continuity."
"Technical support has been decent."
"The analytics feature is quite good."
"The ease of creating policies has been the most useful of the solution's features. It's a quick ramp-up time. It's easy for our support staff to implement the policies in the API management layer."
"It's easy to use and the security features are valuable."
"Highly scalable from any initial topology to horizontal extension"
"Apigee gives you plenty of opportunities to set up your workspace depending on how you want to manage your APIs."
"I simply like how you can personalize your products and put them into product categories. That's what I like the most."
"The flexibility allows you to quickly run a cloud-native application architecture."
"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."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"When working with XML payloads, there can be issues due to the lack of a seamless connection between API Gateway and Lambda functions."
"Amazon API Gateway can improve the user interface in some areas it could be more polished."
"There are certain restrictions that cannot be implemented without web access."
"It's hard to configure. There's a lot of options but it's very hard, it's very confusing."
"Amazon API Gateway needs to focus on minimizing latency."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"An area for improvement would be to provide more information while troubleshooting."
"I would like them to add features, such as caching and mediation policies."
"Better functionality for validating inputs and outputs would be helpful."
"Apigee lacks market presence."
"In terms of the functionalities of a typical API gateway, Apigee is actually doing its job, but when it involves integration with backend applications, which some gateways have, I don't believe it has this functionality. You have to do Java or do some other low-level coding before you are able to do the integration. Apigee has a lot of components, which means that management will be a bit difficult. It probably has ten different components, and all of these components leverage open-source utilities, such as NGINX. When those open-source vendors upgrade their utility, Apigee usually lags behind because they need to do a lot of tests and any required development in their own platform. They need to do rigorous testing to make sure that nothing breaks. Because of that, it takes them a while to upgrade whatever components have been upgraded by the open-source vendor that owns the utility. We've been chasing them for a particular upgrade for well over a year and a half, and they have not done that upgrade. It is creating a security risk for us as an enterprise, but that upgrade has not been done, even though the open-source vendor, the owner of the utility, has upgraded it a long time ago."
"Apigee is more of an entry level solution that does basic things pretty well, but if you want to go more customizable, you want to really look for another solution."
"When it comes to the rate limit, we don't have a specific category for rate limits for a particular customer."
"They have an external developer platform that was a little bit painful."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Apigee 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 Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Apigee report.
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