We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Apigee based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon API Gateway has a slight edge in this comparison due to it being the less expensive solution.
"It is a stable solution."
"This solution is useful for making new APIs."
"This solution gives you a unified way to have your API accessed."
"One of the most valuable aspects of API Gateway is its native integration with AWS services."
"It is a stable solution."
"The initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes."
"The product is really good when it comes to API lifecycle management, and it is not just something that includes the balancing part or the security aspect but also the routing and the fallback mechanism."
"It allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them."
"The initial setup isn't too complex."
"We can customize the dashboard."
"Its customer service is good."
"The following features are most valuable: API Management, Analytics, Quota, and the Developer Portal."
"Items around the mobilization of the API interface and the ability to automate validations for our APIs are the most valuable aspects."
"Apigee provides good documentation."
"Technical support has been decent."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"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."
"A lower price would definitely be an improvement."
"I believe that there could be more features associated with analytics since it is an area where the product lacks."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"Their support services come at a considerable cost, leaving room for improvement."
"The API Gateway lacks the capability to directly facilitate API strategy development or user onboarding workflows."
"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."
"I believe better governance and monitoring features would be beneficial."
"The solution tends to hide the limitations to keep selling the product."
"Role-based access management needs to be improved. It would also be nice if the solution could be integrated with code versioning systems like Git/Bitbucket."
"In terms of the functionalities of a typical API gateway, Apigee is actually doing its job, but when it involves integration with backend applications, which some gateways have, I don't believe it has this functionality. You have to do Java or do some other low-level coding before you are able to do the integration. Apigee has a lot of components, which means that management will be a bit difficult. It probably has ten different components, and all of these components leverage open-source utilities, such as NGINX. When those open-source vendors upgrade their utility, Apigee usually lags behind because they need to do a lot of tests and any required development in their own platform. They need to do rigorous testing to make sure that nothing breaks. Because of that, it takes them a while to upgrade whatever components have been upgraded by the open-source vendor that owns the utility. We've been chasing them for a particular upgrade for well over a year and a half, and they have not done that upgrade. It is creating a security risk for us as an enterprise, but that upgrade has not been done, even though the open-source vendor, the owner of the utility, has upgraded it a long time ago."
"I am still struggling to understand how we can use Apigee as a hybrid system. The pricing of this solution could also be improved as there are multiple new products coming onto the market at competitive price points."
"Since it is based on various open sourced projects, we might have to depend on the fixes provided by those components rather than Apigee directly fixing the issues."
"The technical support could be improved because their response time is slow."
"Apigee is demanding on the infrastructure so the setup cost is very high for an on-premises deployment."
"Apigee's user interface could be more straightforward and have more options. Also, it would be nice if it were ready to work out of the box without so much configuration."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Apigee 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 Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Apigee report.
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