We performed a comparison between 3scale API Management and Amazon API Gateway 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."The most valuable features are the gateway and security features."
"The gateway is the most valuable feature because it makes it possible for us to gather all traffic into one proxy, which is a good thing."
"3scale API Management's best feature is API management."
"To me, the most valuable feature of 3scale API Management is that it lets you add a backend to the product. I also like that you can integrate it well with OpenShift clusters, making 3scale API Management a useful solution."
"The solution is quite lightweight, and the installation is very easy. It's like a two-click installation."
"The product is stable."
"It's good that they aren't adding a lot of features like ESP, etc. It's okay with just being a gateway."
"The standard deployment is very simple."
"It is a stable solution."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"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."
"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."
"One of the most valuable aspects of API Gateway is its native integration with AWS services."
"The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"The initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes."
"It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway."
"The product is not that flexible for developers. It's less flexible and rigid. It's not easy to make changes or customize it."
"We tried to use the portal, but we decided that it wasn't enough. The content management system (CMS) is not easy to use if you want to customize things, and it's hard to get someone who has the knowledge to work with the CMS."
"3scale API Management only supports restful APIs and doesn't support SOAP."
"The user experience could be better. The developer portal is too complex and hard to configure."
"What was suggested by Red Hat was a crucial part of the configuration, but when we started to ask about the supportability of this configuration, Red Hat said only some parts of the configuration would be supported."
"It would be helpful to improve the customization features so that the customer can do it based on their own needs."
"What I'd like to improve in 3scale API Management is its route-limiting feature. Currently, I don't know how to do that effectively on the solution, but in Kong, I know how to do it, so I would love to see route-limiting being easily done on 3scale API Management. It would also be good if there was some authentication that you could do from 3scale API Management because Kong offers that functionality out of the box. What I'd love to see in the next release of 3scale API Management is the ability to integrate more plug-ins easily onto the platform, so you'll be able to extend it, and even do customs management. If Red Hat could offer that extension where it allows the internal organization where 3scale API Management is deployed on-premise to integrate its tools on top of 3scale API Management and provide an API for that, that will make the solution very powerful."
"I believe the CMS part of it has room for improvement though. That is where you write a couple of things if you want to publish your API. It's based on liquid scripting, which doesn't seem like the obvious ones to script with."
"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."
"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."
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"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."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"They could include more support tools in the product."
"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."
"I believe better governance and monitoring features would be beneficial."
3scale API Management is ranked 12th in API Management with 10 reviews while Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews. 3scale API Management is rated 7.4, while Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of 3scale API Management writes "Useful as it lets you add a backend to the product, it integrates well with clusters, and it has exceptional technical support, but route-limiting isn't easy to do on it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". 3scale API Management is most compared with Kong Gateway Enterprise, Apigee, IBM API Connect, WSO2 API Manager and Microsoft Azure API Management, whereas Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Axway AMPLIFY API Management. See our 3scale API Management vs. Amazon API Gateway report.
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