We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Apigee based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon API Gateway has a slight edge in this comparison due to it being the less expensive solution.
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Its security feature is the most valuable because it is mainly a security solution. It has easy authentication and authorization, and its integration is also useful."
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."
"Amazon API Gateway is a very fast solution."
"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."
"It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"The initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes."
"It is a stable solution."
"Apigee makes proxy management very simple."
"It accelerates development and deployment processes."
"The most valuable feature of the current version of Apigee, such as Apigee Edge, is that the maintenance and scalability of the service are not our responsibility. As a SaaS platform, Google takes care of it, ensuring the system is stable. Another valuable feature is the ability to customize the platform extensively. We can add JavaScript functionality to cater to any use case that is not available out of the box."
"The ease of creating policies has been the most useful of the solution's features. It's a quick ramp-up time. It's easy for our support staff to implement the policies in the API management layer."
"The central monitoring feature is the most valuable. It also provides security for the APIs and high availability for our use cases. Apigee is the best product in the industry in comparison to other API management solutions. It helps in fast development, which is a top point. It also supports a lot of industry standards and has excellent documentation."
"Apigee is relatively easy to use for developers."
"The most valuable feature is monetization."
"One of the best parts of this solution is the implementation as we did not need to use code or out-of-box policies. When it comes to the cloud-based architecture, there is a high level of reliability."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"A lower price would definitely be an improvement."
"The integration could be improved."
"They could include more support tools in the product."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"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."
"Its support for SAM integration could be made more accessible."
"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."
"Development IDE, especially for Architect Review."
"Could be more user friendly."
"Apigee is demanding on the infrastructure so the setup cost is very high for an on-premises deployment."
"I'd like this solution to improve on releasing new features; I'd like it to be more frequent."
"The number one area this solution could be improved is by implementing support. Support is not a part of this solution."
"We are experiencing issues with automation; the production in Apigee is quite time-consuming."
"iPaaS is something that we would like to see. For example, MuleSoft is kind of an integrated platform as a service (iPaaS), and it provides a lot of out-of-the-box connectors and other such things. This is where Apigee lacks. I'm not sure if that's the roadmap for Apigee, but any improvements on those lines would be helpful where things become easier to implement."
"The caching capabilities are somewhat limited. This is more on the developer-oriented capabilities."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Apigee is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Apigee report.
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