We performed a comparison between Akana API Management and Amazon API Gateway 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."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 tool's authentication mechanism is easy to implement. We had to define a few parameters."
"Amazon stack is easy to use in combination with other Amazon services, so it was a logical continuity."
"Integrating API Gateway with other AWS services was easy. It worked out of the box, so it worked perfectly."
"It's flexible. It was valuable."
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."
"The most valuable feature is it has lots of integration."
"The solution is a managed service and requires minimal configuration, which makes it easy to launch an API."
"Amazon API Gateway is a very fast solution."
"This solution gives you a unified way to have your API accessed."
"The product has new features that we are going to implement in the next few months, such as API management and analytic reporting."
"Akana API Management needs to improve its documentation."
"Lacks an integrated billing feature."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"I believe better governance and monitoring features would be beneficial."
"Amazon API Gateway needs to focus on minimizing latency."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"The pricing could be improved. In cases where customers require real-time sync or real-time calling groups with IoT, the volume of data and time lag become a concern."
"Their support services come at a considerable cost, leaving room for improvement."
Akana API Management is ranked 28th in API Management with 3 reviews while Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews. Akana API Management is rated 8.4, while Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2. 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 Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". Akana API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect, whereas Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Oracle API Platform Cloud Service.
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