We performed a comparison between Akana API Management and Amazon API Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."Good interface, intuitive solution."
"The tool's authentication mechanism is easy to implement. We had to define a few parameters."
"It allowed us to publish and replace pre-essential transactions in one place, with a uniformity in terms of control and policies."
"This solution is useful for making new APIs."
"It is easy to set up. It is also quick to deploy."
"Amazon API Gateway is a very fast solution."
"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."
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."
"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."
"It allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them."
"Lacks an integrated billing feature."
"Akana API Management needs to improve its documentation."
"The product has new features that we are going to implement in the next few months, such as API management and analytic reporting."
"Amazon API Gateway can improve the user interface in some areas it could be more polished."
"The tool's UI requires time to understand."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"Its support for SAM integration could be made more accessible."
"Since the first invocation of AWS Lambda takes more than 30 seconds because of Lambda's cold start, Amazon API Gateway blocks that resource, thereby aborting the invocation."
"It's hard to configure. There's a lot of options but it's very hard, it's very confusing."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"Their support services come at a considerable cost, leaving room for improvement."
Akana API Management is ranked 28th in API Management with 3 reviews while Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews. Akana API Management is rated 8.4, while Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akana API Management writes "Authentication mechanism is easy to implement but improvement is needed in documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". Akana API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect, whereas Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Oracle API Platform Cloud Service.
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