We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Microsoft Azure API Management based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure is highly regarded for its stability, integration capabilities, and user-friendliness, whereas Amazon is appreciated for its flexibility and ease of use. Azure users express a desire for lower licensing fees, improved integration, and enhanced performance, while Amazon users seek better monitoring and security features. Azure's pricing is considered reasonable but could be more cost-effective, while Amazon's pricing is generally acceptable. The quality of Azure's technical support varies, while Amazon's support is generally satisfactory.
"The solution is user-friendly."
"It is a stable solution."
"It is easy to set up. It is also quick to deploy."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It's flexible. It was valuable."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent."
"The initial setup is not that complex, but there are certain challenges."
"There were no scalability issues."
"The package as a whole is useful for our customers."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure API Management is monitoring. When compared with Apigee, I prefer Microsoft Azure API Management."
"I like that security features can be integrated with API Management. I also like that you can perform rate-limiting and throttling functions."
"The ease of setting up a new solution is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up a new solution and to deploy it to production."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is 90 to 99 percent scalable. We have three instances running in parallel."
"The integration with Azure Active Directory is a good security feature for authentication and authorization. There is multifactor authentication. You can also use all of the Azure AD features integrated with API Management."
"The user interface, in general, can be better. The user interface for the entire Amazon cloud can be more friendly. There are some scenarios that are not really easy to manage and configure through the user interface."
"It's hard to configure. There's a lot of options but it's very hard, it's very confusing."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"The pricing could be improved. In cases where customers require real-time sync or real-time calling groups with IoT, the volume of data and time lag become a concern."
"It would be useful to have a more complete development environment for the developer, with different integrative capabilities to manage all the life cycles for the API. I think the full version formula for that is really useful. They should improve the development environment for easier integration."
"They could include more support tools in the product."
"If I compare this solution to others I have used in other phases of my life, having APIM being an Azure resource, it is easy to configure and deploy. However, this conversely reduced the flexibility. The difficulty is how do we configure it in a manner that a larger enterprise would probably want it to be. This creates a bit more complexity, working around the constraints of the resource itself. If comparing it to other solutions, it is more of a legacy design with an older approach. The various level components are still around resembling an on-premise type of design similar to other solutions, such as Apigee or Mulesoft. They are still predominantly carrying some legacy design. Which might be suited for organizations where they have a more complex network layout. APIM is easy to deploy, but on the other side of that, it is constrained to how Azure has designed it to be."
"The licensing fees should be cheaper."
"The external policies are impossible to look at and configure."
"The product needs to introduce a developer portal."
"The cloud deployment performance could be better."
"The developer console for external users could be improved, especially in the testing site."
"Azure is our most expensive resource; it's costly."
"I could that the UI could be improved."
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Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure API Management 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 Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise, IBM API Connect and WSO2 API Manager. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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