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.
"The solution is solid, robust, and scalable."
"The solution is a managed service and requires minimal configuration, which makes it easy to launch an API."
"It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"It allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them."
"This solution gives you a unified way to have your API accessed."
"The most interesting feature is its Mac-based function."
"The user interface is easy to navigate, and the documentation is extensive. It's open-source, so everything is available, and we can create what we need. That's not necessarily a feature, but it's an advantage."
"The flexibility is definitely a highlight. We have flexible mapping capabilities, allowing us to provide common mappings or create custom ones as needed."
"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."
"I think the best part about WSO2 API Manager is that it's highly customizable because it's open-source. The partnership model is quite lucrative for us, it helps us to go and pitch to our customers. You can build a lot of business models yourself that you want to use. You are able to do a lot of the solutions."
"It's very scalable, which is one of the best features."
"The documentation is good."
"It is possible to scale up and scale down with the solution...I can say that I have not seen any issues related to scalability."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"They could include more support tools in the product."
"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."
"From a use cases perspective, you need to have an internal and external gateway. AWS can only handle external traffic so has to be used together with another solution."
"I believe that there could be more features associated with analytics since it is an area where the product lacks."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The tool's UI requires time to understand."
"API Manager is not easy to scale because some of its components lack scalability. It's a difficult point. Especially because companies are so cloud-based these days, microservice scalability is a major thing."
"WSO2 API Manager could improve the API approval system."
"I would like it to be a more convenient development platform with the ability to write orchestrations and so on. Our problem with this product is that in my country, we are the only enterprise that has been using this product. We're missing a lot of knowledge from colleagues to consult with, and we also aren't able to recruit people with relevant skills. It is a big problem. The small team that is maintaining this product is the only team that can actually relate to any technical issue. The support that we're getting from the company is not great. There is also a cultural gap there because they're from Sri Lanka, and it is not easy. They're putting in a lot of effort, but they are not meeting our expectations."
"The initial setup can be difficult."
"For fresh graduates and engineers, the setup process can be very difficult."
"The stability is pretty good, but it could be improved."
"WSO2 API Manager can be improved a lot relating to usability"
"The product hasn’t been updated for some time."
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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