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.
Comparison Results: Amazon API Gateway has a slight edge in this comparison due to it being the less expensive solution.
"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."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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 solution is user-friendly."
"The product is stable."
"It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"The initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes."
"Technical support has been decent."
"It nice and easy for the clients and those using the product to access the product's help resources."
"Apigee's best features are flexibility and breadth of capabilities."
"The most important feature is the security capabilities and the way it integrates very quickly with other security providers. We have integrated it with Azure and it integrates quite seamlessly."
"Highly scalable from any initial topology to horizontal extension"
"The security that you have with Apigee is very good and aligns with compliance."
"Apigee provides out-of-the-box policies, so it is ready to use with minimal configuration to those policies. You can govern your API and manage the life cycle of the API completely with the Apigee tool."
"A very functional solution."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"Its performance and scalability could be better compared to one of its competitors."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"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."
"Like most Amazon services, and this one's the same, you're expected to effectively do your own support, and any other support is by emails, so it's quite limited."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I believe that there could be more features associated with analytics since it is an area where the product lacks."
"An area for improvement would be to provide more information while troubleshooting."
"Proxy versioning seems a bit confusing/buried in the publishing experience, especially for the URI-based versioning approach."
"The initial setup is not straightforward, particularly for hybrid solutions."
"The setup and installation process could be improved with a container-based system."
"The initial setup for the on-prem solution is a little complex."
"The Apigee cloud admin UI could be more user-friendly by adding a few more features."
"The solution could add even more functionalities."
"We do not have control over the installation."
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, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management, 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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