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Amazon API Gateway vs. Apigee
March 2024
Executive Summary
Updated on May 17, 2022

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.

  • Ease of Deployment: Users report that the initial setup and deployment of both solutions is straightforward and fast.

  • Features: Users of both products are happy with their stability, security, and scalability. Amazon API Gateway users say it is flexible and easy to use but that its UI needs enhancements. Apigee users like its analytics feature and say it has many customization options. Several users mention that it lacks integration options.
  • Pricing: Amazon API Gateway users say that it is a low-cost solution, whereas
    Apigee users feel it is an expensive product.
  • Service and Support: Most users of both solutions report being satisfied with the level of the support they receive.

  • ROI: Amazon API Gateway users do not mention ROI. Apigee users report seeing an ROI.

Comparison Results: Amazon API Gateway has a slight edge in this comparison due to it being the less expensive solution.

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Q&A Highlights
Question: Which solution is better: AWS API Gateway or Apigee?
Answer: AWS API Gateway and Apigee are popular API Management platforms for managing APIs in a hybrid environment, and below are some of their fundamental differences: AWS API Gateway Pros: AWS API Gateway is a managed service, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) taking care of the underlying infrastructure. The platform can be scaled to meet an organization's needs. AWS API Gateway is cost-effective, especially for small and medium-sized organizations. Cons: AWS API Gateway offers limited features compared to other API Management platforms. It is not as flexible as some other API Management platforms. Apigee Pros: Apigee is a flexible and customizable platform for your organization's needs. The platform offers many features, including API design, development, testing, and monitoring. Apigee supports hybrid environments, meaning you can manage APIs hosted on-premises and in the cloud. Cons: Apigee is not a managed service, meaning you are responsible for the underlying infrastructure. It is more costly than AWS API Gateway, especially for small and medium-sized organizations. If your customer is looking for a managed service that is scalable and cost-effective, then AWS API Gateway may be the better choice. If your customer prefers a flexible platform with a wide range of features, then Apigee may be a good option. When choosing an API Management platform, please keep these things in mind: For anyone unfamiliar with API management, AWS API Gateway may be a better choice than Apigee, a more complex platform. AWS API Gateway is typically more cost-effective than Apigee.
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Featured Review
Anonymous User
Ensures seamless integration with AWS services, efficient deployment, scalable serverless architecture, flexible...
In our microservices architecture, we utilize Amazon API Gateway. However, since API Gateway doesn't directly support microservice architecture, we... Read more →
Rajasi Balan
Provides a lot of custom monitoring dashboards, but it is extremely expensive
The development is quite standard. The deployment can be completely automated because the solution exposes APIs. We have built a completely... Read more →
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Pros
"This solution gives you a unified way to have your API accessed.""In terms of most valuable features, it would say that it is really easy to start working with it.""Integrating API Gateway with other AWS services was easy. It worked out of the box, so it worked perfectly.""The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent.""It allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them.""The product is stable.""The solution is solid, robust, and scalable.""It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway."

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"The most valuable feature of Apigee is its simplicity of deploying an API and restricting access, like rate limit, with the API.""It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution.""Apigee is an easy-to-use solution.""Apigee makes proxy management very simple.""The analytics function and the developer portal are the two valuable features of Apigee. The analytics part is very good, and the developer portal is quite rich in features.""We can customize the dashboard.""The use case which I have installed serves the intended purpose.""Great flexibility with its features."

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Cons
"The tool's UI requires time to understand.""Amazon API Gateway is not as complete as Apigee and needs to be improved by adding more features to become a more robust application.""Currently, I'm not facing any issues with Amazon API Gateway, which satisfies my requirements. I'm pretty happy with what Amazon API Gateway offers, but as its pricing is on the higher side, that's one area for improvement in the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of Amazon API Gateway is an improvement in the status checks you get from the monitoring feature of the solution. Currently, you get the number of requests received, the number of reports, etc., but if there are more details than what's given by Amazon API Gateway, that will improve the solution.""The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country.""The API Gateway lacks the capability to directly facilitate API strategy development or user onboarding workflows.""The only real problem is that you have to know a lot about what is outside of the API gateway in order to make the best use of it.""API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better.""A lower price would definitely be an improvement."

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"Google isn't enthusiastic about supporting older versions. Google is now trying to move all of its clients to X within the cloud.""The Apigee cloud admin UI could be more user-friendly by adding a few more features.""The developer portal's adoption of the OpenAPI standard needs to be improved. In the latest version of the developer portal, they have adopted the OpenAPI standard. This feature, however, can be improved by supporting more characteristics of the OpenAPI standard.""I would like to see SOAP services and socket-based connectivity developed.""The cost of the solution is quite high.""Apigee does not have a testing feature.""We are experiencing some performance issues.""It needs predictive analysis of consumption."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This is a pay-per-use service, where you only pay for what you use."
  • "Fees are volume-based."
  • "There are no licensing fees."
  • "I am satisfied with the price."
  • "There is an annual licensing cost to use Amazon API Gateway."
  • "Amazon API Gateway has various pricing plans, but I cannot give the exact cost, though I can say that it's expensive. On a scale of one to five, I'd rate the pricing for Amazon API Gateway as two, as the solution is one of the most expensive products in the market for API management."
  • "We use all open-source technology."
  • "Since it's a serverless solution, Amazon API Gateway is not so expensive."

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  • "As most of the customers say, the tool is a bit expensive."
  • "Based on your usage of the APIs you can take a decision to go with either an on-cloud or OPDK version. Get in touch with the sales representatives of Apigee."
  • "Since it was acquired by Google, we can get a license based on our requirements and the cost level will depend on cloud access and support."
  • "Pricing options need to be chosen on a case-by-case basis."
  • "The cost of the licensing is based on the number of API calls that are made."
  • "It is not suited for small companies. It's expensive."
  • "It is more expensive when you compare to open-source products or other vendors."
  • "We have a contract for three years. I don't know the cost."

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    Questions from the Community
    Which is better - Apigee or Amazon API Gateway?
    Top Answer:Amazon API Gateway is a platform that supports the creation and publication of API for web applications. The platform can support thousands of simultaneous API calls, and it provides monitoring… more »
    How does Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager compare with Amazon API Gateway?
    Top Answer:I have found that Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager is the best integration tool out there for API management. It is easy to implement and learn; it provides several options for deployment, (including… more »
    Which is better - Azure API Management or Amazon API Gateway?
    Top Answer:If you use Azure products, API Management is a great solution. It solves many of the problems of externalizing web services. For example, when you need versioning, establish a developer portal and… more »
    How does Apigee differ from Azure API Management?
    Top Answer: Apigee offers both cloud-based and on-prem options while Microsoft Azure API Management currently only offers a cloud-based solution. Both solutions are easy to use. Apigee allows for the ability… more »
    What do you like most about Apigee?
    Top Answer:We can customize the dashboard.
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    What needs improvement with Apigee?
    Top Answer:Some customers are moving away from Apigee to other tools like Kong. The product’s licensing model is very expensive. Apigee is completely SaaS-hosted. We do not have control over the installation… more »
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    Overview

    Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can create an API that acts as a "front door" for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your back-end services, such as workloads running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), code running on AWS Lambda, or any Web application.

    Apigee is a platform for developing and managing APIs. Apigee offers an interface for your core services by wrapping them with a proxy layer which is then accessed by other developers. With Apigee, you can design and build APIs and then securely share their services and data without exposing any code.

    Because app developers make HTTP requests to an API proxy rather than directly to your services, your services are separated from the developers. All the developer needs to know is the URL of the API proxy endpoint, necessary query parameters, authorization credentials (if they exist), and the response data format.

    The API proxy isolates the app developer from your backend service. Therefore, you are free to change the service implementation if the public API remains consistent. By maintaining a consistent frontend API, existing client apps will continue to work regardless of changes on the backend.

    Key capabilities of the Apigee API management platform include:

    • Security: Protect APIs, messages, and backends with configurable policies such as OAuth, API key verification, XML/JSON threat protection, and access control.

    • API gateway: Secure and mediate the traffic between clients and backends, and between a company’s APIs and the developers who use the APIs.

    • Developer portal: Attract and engage application developers, enabling them to discover, explore, purchase, and test APIs and register to access and use the APIs.

    • API console: The console helps developers learn and work with APIs.

    • API lifecycle management: Manage the process of designing, developing, publishing, deploying, and versioning APIs.

    • Automated documentation: Automate the development of API documentation and software development kits.

    • Machine learning: Utilize machine learning and analytics to generate actionable insights and reports.
    • API monitoring: Apigee offers monitoring tools for API troubleshooting, security, and optimization.

    Reviews from Real Users:

    Apigee stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its rich developer portal, its advanced analytics, and its central monitoring system.

    Carlos R., a software architect at Caja Los Andes writes, “The central monitoring feature is the most valuable. It also provides security for the APIs and high availability for our use cases. Apigee is the best product in the industry in comparison to other API management solutions. It helps in fast development, which is a top point. It also supports a lot of industry standards and has excellent documentation.”

    An associate vice president at a tech services company notes, “The analytics function and the developer portal are the two valuable features of Apigee. The analytics part is very good, and the developer portal is quite rich in features. The authentication mechanisms are quite easily built into Apigee, which is something that most of the other products have also now started supporting.”

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    Computer Software Company25%
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Retailer20%
    Insurance Company5%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Insurance Company6%
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    Computer Software Company31%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Retailer14%
    Insurance Company10%
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    Financial Services Firm22%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Insurance Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise47%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise69%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    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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