We performed a comparison between Layer7 API Management and Microsoft Azure 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.
"They have got a very compelling platform that enables organizations to easily develop and roll out mobile applications."
"The initial setup process is easy and flexible."
"The latest version that just came out at the first of October really was a powerful move in the right direction. I was very, very pleased with that because it allows now beginning to use information of things. We've got this IOT infrastructure that we can plug into, and for my use cases there are a lot of outdoor sensors that provide valuable information to my customers."
"Key features include: lightweight mediation, transformation from JSON to XML and XML to JSON, API portal and API key management, the Developer Portal, and Circuit Breaker is a cool feature, too."
"It can be scaled as we need. And it can be used in different regions. We have different data centers in the U.S. and Beijing. We use it on-premise, on-cloud, and it can be hosted and used at any place and scaled across the regions."
"Every API that we get from external or from internal goes through this layer first, and it should not be a bottleneck. That was the problem we had before. Now it's no longer a bottleneck. It's more like a throughput, this process is less than 10 milliseconds for any particular API."
"When I have used technical support they helped me a lot. Sometimes they took a long time to respond because we had very complex issues that we asked them for help with, but I think it is a very good service."
"Scalability: API Gateway is easily scalable horizontally and managed easily."
"Azure API is scalable."
"Ease of integration into the entire Microsoft environment."
"API Management does not take long to deploy."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is a good, comprehensive solution for enterprise implementation."
"The API management and the hosting of the API platform are great."
"The UI management is very easy to use."
"The product gives API gateway-related features, like throttling, which are easy to use and low-code/no-code."
"The Azure Active Directory Synchronization is quite good."
"It would be nice if we could create APIs directly from Swagger files. We're doing that ourselves with a middle layer. But if you could integrate with open API Swagger specs, and then just create a Swagger and upload it to the gateway and it would create all my API template policy, and would apply the OAuth restrictions, the types of security restrictions I have on there, that would be pretty cool."
"The developer portal needs to fully supported SOAP services (including WSDL publication with security), it would certainly push adoption for us."
"It needs better mobile features and HA configuration."
"Needs to work better with DB2 UDB."
"There could be more integration options included in the product."
"What is really important is that they offer the solution as a service, on a subscription or monthly basis, which will make it more attractive. That is where the market is headed. There are competitors within the industry that are doing that currently. I would encourage CA to do that."
"Layer7 API Management’s price could be reduced."
"I feel there is a lot to improve in terms of providing plug-and-play functionalities, as at the moment it requires a lot of coding in their specific language for implementing a medium-complexity use case."
"The solution's integration suite needs improvement."
"They're trying to implement versioning and trying to be able to manage different versions of your API all at the same time, but they're not doing that just quite right yet."
"Microsoft Azure API Management needs to improve stability."
"Microsoft Azure API Management could improve by having better integration with third-party solutions."
"I would like to see better scalability and better performance."
"There is always room for improvement. There should be more analytics abilities so you can know how much traffic there is. Log Analyzer isn't well integrated with this solution."
"The external policies are impossible to look at and configure."
"There is a limitation of 32 kb of data in the APIs. Having the limitation increase would be a benefit."
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Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and IBM API Connect, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and 3scale API Management. See our Layer7 API Management vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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