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.
"Amazon API Gateway is a very fast solution."
"The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"Amazon API Gateway can integrate with ECS and Lambda."
"It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"It's flexible. It was valuable."
"It is very helpful, with our API-based applications."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The product is stable."
"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."
"It's a good product."
"WSO2 is very stable."
"The scalability is fine for our purposes."
"One of the great things about WSO2 API Manager is that it is so easy to adopt. And because it's an open source solution, we're able to extend the implementation any time to suit our company needs better."
"Based on the information I have, the solution's most valuable feature is its capability of implementing custom solutions."
"A complete integration suite and a good platform."
"Most of the time, we need to install a plug-in without having any lapse in services or restarting the application. The WSO2 platform can do all deployments without any downtime."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"When working with XML payloads, there can be issues due to the lack of a seamless connection between API Gateway and Lambda functions."
"They could include more support tools in the product."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution could improve signature validation."
"It's hard to configure. There's a lot of options but it's very hard, it's very confusing."
"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."
"The API Gateway lacks the capability to directly facilitate API strategy development or user onboarding workflows."
"We found WSO2 API Manager to be a bit complex."
"The user interface could be a bit better."
"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."
"For fresh graduates and engineers, the setup process can be very difficult."
"Lacks some new features and updated functionalities."
"WSO2 API Manager should improve its marketplace subscription model and documentation in order to reach a higher level in the market."
"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."
"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."
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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