We performed a comparison between Akana API Management and Microsoft Azure API Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."The tool's authentication mechanism is easy to implement. We had to define a few parameters."
"Good interface, intuitive solution."
"It allowed us to publish and replace pre-essential transactions in one place, with a uniformity in terms of control and policies."
"The ability to easily connect back to Service Fabric is the most important for us."
"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."
"I like the API Management functions."
"The most valuable feature is the developer portal, which has source code examples in various programming languages to help developers learn the API."
"I have found this solution to be easy to configure, simple to use, and flexible."
"We're pretty much using all of the monetizations features out of the API manager so we can put up a portal and have a dev portal and then a prod portal and do rate limiting."
"This solution is very flexible, and it's very compatible with the other Azure products."
"Without a doubt, it has a very robust, strong marketplace where we can directly integrate with existing APIs and begin working on those."
"Akana API Management needs to improve its documentation."
"Lacks an integrated billing feature."
"The product has new features that we are going to implement in the next few months, such as API management and analytic reporting."
"The licensing tiers can be misleading."
"The user interface needs improvement."
"Security could be improved."
"Azure is our most expensive resource; it's costly."
"Specific to API development, I think Microsoft is still far behind AWS. AWS has grown by leaps and bounds, and Microsoft is a close second. But in terms of features and other stuff they provide, Microsoft's compatibility with publicly available APIs is a little limited. So, that is a little bit of a constraint. But what they provide is good, it's just that they need to build more on their API suite. I think Google is doing a really good job at that."
"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."
"It should be easier to integrate."
"The implementation has room for improvement and can be more user-friendly."
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Akana API Management is ranked 28th in API Management with 3 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. Akana API Management is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Akana API Management writes "Authentication mechanism is easy to implement but improvement is needed in documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Akana API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway, Kong Gateway Enterprise 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 IBM API Connect.
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