We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and WSO2 API Manager based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon API Gateway finishes slightly ahead in this comparison. Amazon is very flexible and offers very good integrations, especially within the Amazon ecosystem. Many WSO2 API Manager users feel the solution has some stability and performance issues, making it less desirable.
"In terms of most valuable features, it would say that it is really easy to start working with it."
"Amazon API Gateway is a very fast solution."
"Integrating API Gateway with other AWS services was easy. It worked out of the box, so it worked perfectly."
"This solution gives you a unified way to have your API accessed."
"It's flexible. It was valuable."
"What I like best about Amazon API Gateway is that it's simple to use, easy to set up, and you can quickly get it up and running. It's a very user-friendly solution. I also didn't experience any issues in terms of Amazon API Gateway interface, integration, or monitoring. The solution runs smoothly."
"Amazon API Gateway can integrate with ECS and Lambda."
"All information and data needs to be sanitized before it enters a private domain and we use this solution to do this."
"Yes WSO2 API Manager is scalable"
"I think the best part about WSO2 API Manager is that it's highly customizable because it's open-source. The partnership model is quite lucrative for us, it helps us to go and pitch to our customers. You can build a lot of business models yourself that you want to use. You are able to do a lot of the solutions."
"Most of the time, we need to install a plug-in without having any lapse in services or restarting the application. The WSO2 platform can do all deployments without any downtime."
"The flexibility is definitely a highlight. We have flexible mapping capabilities, allowing us to provide common mappings or create custom ones as needed."
"The product is easy to use."
"As far as I am aware this solution is the first API Publisher that allows you to create and publish API and to manage the API lifecycle."
"It's a good product."
"There are a lot of tools to help the manager. WSO2 is very easy to install. It has all the principal functionalities that you think about when you want to put up the management solution. It's a very friendly tool."
"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."
"From a use cases perspective, you need to have an internal and external gateway. AWS can only handle external traffic so has to be used together with another solution."
"Amazon API Gateway can improve the user interface in some areas it could be more polished."
"There are certain restrictions that cannot be implemented without web access."
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"Their support services come at a considerable cost, leaving room for improvement."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"There should be more videos and documentation about the new features that are released every month."
"WSO2 API Manager can be improved a lot relating to usability"
"Integration is an area that needs to be improved."
"The price and the complexities attached to the solution are two areas of concern where improvements are required."
"We had some problems with the reverse proxy not being able to invoke fully qualified domain names, so we have to build some custom scripts to solve this issue."
"Based on our recent large scaling project, the latency needs to be improved."
"Lacks some new features and updated functionalities."
"For fresh graduates and engineers, the setup process can be very difficult."
"WSO2 API Manager should improve its marketplace subscription model and documentation in order to reach a higher level in the market."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Microsoft Azure API Management, Apache APISIX and 3scale API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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