We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Microsoft Azure API Management based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure is highly regarded for its stability, integration capabilities, and user-friendliness, whereas Amazon is appreciated for its flexibility and ease of use. Azure users express a desire for lower licensing fees, improved integration, and enhanced performance, while Amazon users seek better monitoring and security features. Azure's pricing is considered reasonable but could be more cost-effective, while Amazon's pricing is generally acceptable. The quality of Azure's technical support varies, while Amazon's support is generally satisfactory.
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."
"The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"It allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them."
"One of the most valuable aspects of API Gateway is its native integration with AWS services."
"This solution is useful for making new APIs."
"The solution is solid, robust, and scalable."
"It's flexible. It was valuable."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the integration of CI/CD with the API gateway."
"We use this solution for API rate limiting and for its security features against DDoS."
"The ease of setting up a new solution is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up a new solution and to deploy it to production."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure API Management is monitoring. When compared with Apigee, I prefer Microsoft Azure API Management."
"The solution has overall high performance."
"We're very satisfied with Azure API Management. We've had no issues with bugs, everything runs smoothly, and the connection between the cloud and the on-premise infrastructure was good."
"It is easy to use."
"The API management is great."
"The API Gateway lacks the capability to directly facilitate API strategy development or user onboarding workflows."
"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."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"A lower price would definitely be an improvement."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"It's hard to configure. There's a lot of options but it's very hard, it's very confusing."
"Amazon API Gateway can improve the user interface in some areas it could be more polished."
"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."
"Price is the first thing that comes to mind. It's quite expensive, which could be a barrier for some users."
"The scalability of this solution could be improved. The volume which the API Management task service can handle needs to be improved. Cost wise, this solution could be optimized."
"The hybrid part could be improved because API Management is entirely cloud-based, but some of our resources are on-prem, so formatting is an issue. Our goal is dual implementation."
"From my understanding, there are some constraints around governance and service-to-service intercommunication managing priorities and our own governance."
"The integration with other API gateways is where they might try to improve."
"Other products have more customization options."
"The developer portal can be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface and workflow for hosting APIs, especially third-party APIs."
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Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 67 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure API Management 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 Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise, IBM API Connect and WSO2 API Manager. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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