We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Layer7 API Management 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 solution is a managed service and requires minimal configuration, which makes it easy to launch an API."
"t is easy for integrations if it is deployed in AWS Services."
"This solution gives you a unified way to have your API accessed."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"This solution is useful for making new APIs."
"The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"In terms of most valuable features, it would say that it is really easy to start working with it."
"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 level of technical support is good."
"The most valuable features of Layer7 API Management are integration, ease of use, building APIs easily, and portal straightforward."
"The scalability has been good. We haven't had to scale up a whole lot, even with all the extra transactions we're running through it. We're in the area of about 2 and 1/2 million OAuth tokens issued per hour, and it's performing fine with that."
"We definitely get good responses from the technical team and they are quite responsive."
"Compared to other vendors, this product is much faster in coming up with new features, which is good."
"The product documentation helps the client and/or user to evolve quickly while using the tool."
"A big win for CA was the expertise of the local country support plus having support staff on site in a matter of hours, if required."
"This product, at first blush, looks something like it's one of those weekend warrior tools, but it's not. It's an enterprise-class tool with the kind of usability that you wouldn't expect. And with that usability - how do you have your cake and eat it too? Well, it's because of the product's extensibility. It's very well-integrated with your existing Java library of processes and procedures, as well as your ability to write new extensions to it. You get so much of the base functionality but you don't give up the ability customize."
"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 would be useful to have a more complete development environment for the developer, with different integrative capabilities to manage all the life cycles for the API. I think the full version formula for that is really useful. They should improve the development environment for easier integration."
"I believe better governance and monitoring features would be beneficial."
"Amazon API Gateway is not as complete as Apigee and needs to be improved by adding more features to become a more robust application."
"There are certain restrictions that cannot be implemented without web access."
"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."
"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."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"Some users say that the API lacks some features and is lagging behind the competition although that has not been my personal experience."
"The API Development tool can be made more user-friendly by providing folder properties."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"One day, where we can have a microservices gateway and we will not need the classic gateway at all, that is what we want to see."
"feel like Apigee's API product is more interactive. You can drag and drop with those, but it's a little more difficult in Layer7. It's less user-friendly compared to that Apigee product."
"I understand that clients are often concerned about costs. They might be exploring other options due to the high cost associated with our current package."
"The delivery is bulky in terms of implementation. Its price could also be better. It is a very good product as compared to CA API, Google API, and WSO2 API, but its price is high. From the cloud-native perspective, some new features need to be added. It could also be made simpler to implement."
"The UI design could be improved in the next release."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management and IBM API Connect. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Layer7 API Management report.
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