We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Layer7 API Management 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 is very helpful, with our API-based applications."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"This solution is useful for making new APIs."
"It is easy to set up. It is also quick to deploy."
"It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"One of the most valuable aspects of API Gateway is its native integration with AWS services."
"Its security feature is the most valuable because it is mainly a security solution. It has easy authentication and authorization, and its integration is also useful."
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."
"The product documentation helps the client and/or user to evolve quickly while using the tool."
"I appreciate Layer 7 API management for its comprehensive approach to the entire API lifecycle, including governance, management, and analytics."
"The most valuable feature is the security with its out-of-the-box policies."
"We definitely get good responses from the technical team and they are quite responsive."
"The solution helped us to quickly publish and monetize APIs. I have used versioning responses to publish or send APIs to different customers with different versions."
"One of the features that the tool provides is the ability to simply onboard new APIs to an existing security platform. We build all the policies for security upfront, and then we can add those policies pretty simply and straightforwardly to any new API that gets developed in the enterprise."
"We can get more visibility into our data."
"Mobile app capabilities is good for building mobile apps to consume developed APIs. Also, the API Portal capabilities are very nice, up to and including the ability to do monetization. Security features are exhaustive, with several adapters to all leading identity suites."
"Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function."
"The tool's UI requires time to understand."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"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."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"There should be more videos and documentation about the new features that are released every month."
"Amazon API Gateway is not as complete as Apigee and needs to be improved by adding more features to become a more robust application."
"The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"Needs to work better with DB2 UDB."
"What is really important is that they offer the solution as a service, on a subscription or monthly basis, which will make it more attractive. That is where the market is headed. There are competitors within the industry that are doing that currently. I would encourage CA to do that."
"The development portal could be improved."
"Provide complete documentation with examples of usage on its build in assertion/function."
"The security protocols in CA's product, for financial services, weren't as good as those in API Connect."
"Layer7 API Management’s price could be reduced."
"It needs better mobile features and HA configuration."
"The Portal lacks maturity. Since the move from Portal 3.x to 4.x, a lot of features were removed. It is slowly coming back. I can see a lot of changes are done in the "background" to decouple components and make it more flexible. Those changes are just not getting to the UI side quick enough."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 110 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management and IBM API Connect. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Layer7 API Management report.
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