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.
"What I like best about Amazon API Gateway is that it's simple to use, easy to set up, and you can quickly get it up and running. It's a very user-friendly solution. I also didn't experience any issues in terms of Amazon API Gateway interface, integration, or monitoring. The solution runs smoothly."
"It's flexible. It was valuable."
"This solution is useful for making new APIs."
"The product 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."
"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."
"Amazon API Gateway facilitates our serverless architecture, particularly with Lambda, by allowing us to perform various tasks. For instance, Lambda functions authorize API calls, execute multiple workloads, and integrate with other services like Azure and Kubernetes. Additionally, we leverage Lambda functions behind the Amazon API Gateway to query databases, process data, and interact with different systems."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent."
"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."
"WSO2 is very stable."
"The main feature — the publication of the API, the management section — is great in general."
"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."
"The flexibility is definitely a highlight. We have flexible mapping capabilities, allowing us to provide common mappings or create custom ones as needed."
"The solution is open source and easy to configure."
"The product is easy to use."
"The scalability is fine for our purposes."
"The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"The integration could be improved."
"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."
"The API Gateway lacks the capability to directly facilitate API strategy development or user onboarding workflows."
"Amazon API Gateway needs to focus on minimizing latency."
"The stability is pretty good, but it could be improved."
"From what I have experienced from the versions I have tried, they could improve on the multi-tenant environments to allow some kind of SSO single sign-on between tenant."
"The price and the complexities attached to the solution are two areas of concern where improvements are required."
"The user interface could be a bit better."
"We had some problems with the reverse proxy not being able to invoke fully qualified domain names, so we have to build some custom scripts to solve this issue."
"WSO2 API Manager can be improved a lot relating to usability"
"The interface needs to be modernized and made more user friendly so the product continues to have a growing community of users."
"Lacks some new features and updated functionalities."
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, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Apache APISIX, Microsoft Azure API Management and 3scale API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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