We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise 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."It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway."
"The initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent."
"The solution is stable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"One of the most valuable aspects of API Gateway is its native integration with AWS services."
"It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"The most valuable features of Kong Enterprise are the out-of-the-box open source easy functionality."
"Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."
"The solution provides good performance."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it seamlessly supports a vast number of tools."
"Kong Enterprise has excellent plugin support."
"It boasts remarkable speed and stability, and these qualities, particularly the gateway's resilience, are standout features for me."
"We use the solution for load-balancing, caching, and rate-limiting APIs."
"The features I like include ease of operation and implementation in a cloud environment, the dashboarding features for API statistics, and the user-friendly developer portal."
"The API Gateway lacks the capability to directly facilitate API strategy development or user onboarding workflows."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"The solution could improve signature validation."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"Their support services come at a considerable cost, leaving room for improvement."
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"Its performance and scalability could be better compared to one of its competitors."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"Because it is open-source, it should be less expensive than others."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The technical support team's response time needs to be improved."
"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."
"There should be an easier way to integrate with other solutions, even though it's the same API solution layer. Comparability will be a good improvement."
"From an improvement perspective, the product should offer more readily available connectors and also allow for more seamless AI integrations."
"Understanding the configurations and knowing what needs to be done can be a bit difficult initially."
"The OS upgrades are not as frequent as they should be and they are bulky."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 20 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kong Gateway Enterprise writes "Provides role-based access control and can be easily customized with Lua script". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and IBM API Connect, whereas Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee, Apache APISIX and 3scale API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Kong Gateway Enterprise report.
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