We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Apiary 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."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 most valuable feature is it has lots of integration."
"The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"It is a stable solution."
"It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway."
"It is very helpful, with our API-based applications."
"One of the most valuable aspects of API Gateway is its native integration with AWS services."
"t is easy for integrations if it is deployed in AWS Services."
"Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams."
"I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers."
"Git integration"
"In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so."
"I do like the overall performance of the solution."
"When working with XML payloads, there can be issues due to the lack of a seamless connection between API Gateway and Lambda functions."
"Its performance and scalability could be better compared to one of its competitors."
"The integration could be improved."
"Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function."
"A lower price would definitely be an improvement."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"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."
"The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year."
"Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"
"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition."
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Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Apiary is ranked 36th in API Management. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Apiary 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 Apiary writes "The ability to configure rules to check for consistency has helped". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Layer7 API Management, whereas Apiary is most compared with SwaggerHub, Oracle API Platform Cloud Service, Apigee and Microsoft Azure API Management.
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