We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise 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."It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"In terms of most valuable features, it would say that it is really easy to start working with it."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"The solution is stable."
"Integrating API Gateway with other AWS services was easy. It worked out of the box, so it worked perfectly."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it seamlessly supports a vast number of tools."
"The most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise is its capability to integrate with various security tools."
"Kong Enterprise comes with some ready plug-ins, which is very good for the customers."
"Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."
"This is a solid intrusion prevention system that combines a firewall and antivirus in a single solution."
"It boasts remarkable speed and stability, and these qualities, particularly the gateway's resilience, are standout features for me."
"The route limiting feature is very valuable."
"The tool's scalability is good...The solution's technical support is good."
"Its support for SAM integration could be made more accessible."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"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."
"The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"The integration could be improved."
"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."
"A lower price would definitely be an improvement."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Kong is meant for north-south communications, so it will be interesting to see what solutions they can come up with in the realms of east-west communications, service-to-service communications, and Zero Trust architecture. I believe that if they can provide for these areas, then they will be able to solve the overall integration and security concerns for microservices architecture in general."
"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."
"It becomes difficult if you try to scale it up to multiple clusters."
"The technical support team's response time needs to be improved."
"The developer portal needs to be improved."
"Kong Enterprise fails to provide live tracing of the APIs, which is possible nowadays."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 20 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Kong Gateway Enterprise 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 Kong Gateway Enterprise writes "Provides role-based access control and can be easily customized with Lua script". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and IBM API Connect, whereas Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee, Apache APISIX and 3scale API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Kong Gateway Enterprise report.
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