We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and IBM API Connect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This solution is useful for making new APIs."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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."
"In terms of scalability, I haven't encountered any issues with API Gateway. We've significantly increased our traffic from hitting it once or twice a minute to now hitting it ten to fifteen times within a minute. In an hour, we're receiving hundreds of hits. So, it's performing excellently."
"Amazon API Gateway can integrate with ECS and Lambda."
"It is very helpful, with our API-based applications."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"API Connect is a very good platform for the development of APIs."
"It has all of the tools that are needed for the specific mission."
"The solution is very scalable because it's on the cloud."
"The support is good and active. I rate the technical support a nine out of ten."
"Scalable and stable API platform for creating and managing APIs."
"The gateway is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"API Connect is a good product, and everything works fine. All the analytics are good, and it is easy to follow up. I like it in that sense. I'm more focused on following up on analytics by seeing how many API calls we are getting and where we see a lot of problems. I was working on that API level."
"It's quite flexible and easy to deploy, especially for beginners. It has almost all the features that an API gateway should have."
"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."
"Amazon API Gateway needs to focus on minimizing latency."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"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 will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function."
"The solution could improve signature validation."
"There should be more videos and documentation about the new features that are released every month."
"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."
"It would be helpful to have access monitoring."
"The integration of cloud-based services is where we're looking for improvement in this platform."
"Like any typical IBM infrastructure setup, you need to learn to set it up yourself. It's not one of those simple zip files or an archive unzip and you're up and running in some few minutes. Knowledge to set it up is key."
"Our main pain points are in these two areas: creating a better developer portal and improving stability in terms of synchronization and monetization."
"The design time setup has a lot of customizable fields, but we need certain standard fields to be added, such as what all of the consuming systems are. This needs to be very clearly articulated during the design time."
"The initial setup and installation could be easier."
"IBM API Connect could improve the security of the application and the integration."
"The developer portal could be easier to customize."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while IBM API Connect 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 IBM API Connect writes "Offers basic API orchestration and provides robust security and governance features". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and 3scale API Management, whereas IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and 3scale API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. IBM API Connect report.
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