We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Apiary 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 solution is a managed service and requires minimal configuration, which makes it easy to launch an API."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"The product is really good when it comes to API lifecycle management, and it is not just something that includes the balancing part or the security aspect but also the routing and the fallback mechanism."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Integrating API Gateway with other AWS services was easy. It worked out of the box, so it worked perfectly."
"The solution is solid, robust, and scalable."
"Git integration"
"Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams."
"I do like the overall performance of the solution."
"In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so."
"I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"Amazon API Gateway can improve the user interface in some areas it could be more polished."
"Since the first invocation of AWS Lambda takes more than 30 seconds because of Lambda's cold start, Amazon API Gateway blocks that resource, thereby aborting the invocation."
"There are certain restrictions that cannot be implemented without web access."
"When working with XML payloads, there can be issues due to the lack of a seamless connection between API Gateway and Lambda functions."
"I believe better governance and monitoring features would be beneficial."
"It would be useful to have a more complete development environment for the developer, with different integrative capabilities to manage all the life cycles for the API. I think the full version formula for that is really useful. They should improve the development environment for easier integration."
"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition."
"The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year."
"Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"
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Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Apiary is ranked 36th in API Management. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Apiary 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 Apiary writes "The ability to configure rules to check for consistency has helped". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Layer7 API Management, whereas Apiary is most compared with SwaggerHub, Oracle API Platform Cloud Service, Apigee and Microsoft Azure API Management.
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