We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise 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.
"All information and data needs to be sanitized before it enters a private domain and we use this solution to do this."
"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."
"This solution gives you a unified way to have your API accessed."
"It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"The most valuable feature is it has lots of integration."
"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."
"It's flexible. It was valuable."
"One of the most valuable aspects of API Gateway is its native integration with AWS services."
"We use the solution for load-balancing, caching, and rate-limiting APIs."
"Kong Enterprise has excellent plugin support."
"The most valuable features of Kong Enterprise are the out-of-the-box open source easy functionality."
"The solution provides good performance."
"There are a few features that I like about Kong when it comes to authentication and authorization. Specifically, being able to use Kong for role-based access control (RBAC), and then further being able to integrate the RBAC mechanism with our enterprise directory, was very useful."
"Kong Enterprise comes with some ready plug-ins, which is very good for the customers."
"It boasts remarkable speed and stability, and these qualities, particularly the gateway's resilience, are standout features for me."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it seamlessly supports a vast number of tools."
"Amazon API Gateway can improve the user interface in some areas it could be more polished."
"Amazon API Gateway needs to focus on minimizing latency."
"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."
"I believe better governance and monitoring features would be beneficial."
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The integration could be improved."
"I believe that there could be more features associated with analytics since it is an area where the product lacks."
"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."
"We would like to see an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."
"The solution should include policy features that are available in other solutions like MuleSoft API manager but missing in Kong Enterprise."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The technical support team's response time needs to be improved."
"Kong Enterprise needs to improve its pricing, which starts at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Pricing should be based on API usage rather than monthly. It should improve its documentation as well."
"Kong is meant for north-south communications, so it will be interesting to see what solutions they can come up with in the realms of east-west communications, service-to-service communications, and Zero Trust architecture. I believe that if they can provide for these areas, then they will be able to solve the overall integration and security concerns for microservices architecture in general."
"Kong Enterprise has decided not to support the web portal feature anymore, but I think that feature should stay in the on-premises solution."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 18 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kong Gateway Enterprise writes "Provides role-based access control and can be easily customized with Lua script". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and IBM API Connect, whereas Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee, Apache APISIX and 3scale API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Kong Gateway Enterprise report.
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