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.
"t is easy for integrations if it is deployed in AWS Services."
"In terms of most valuable features, it would say that it is really easy to start working with it."
"It is very helpful, with our API-based applications."
"Amazon API Gateway is a very fast solution."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is solid, robust, and scalable."
"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."
"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."
"Apigee gives you plenty of opportunities to set up your workspace depending on how you want to manage your APIs."
"The use case which I have installed serves the intended purpose."
"It has all the features necessary to work in anything from a basic scenario to advanced applications."
"Apigee makes proxy management very simple."
"Apigee Analytics dashboard is useful to monitor transactions, error percentage, transaction latency, etc."
"The most valuable features are low-code play, quick packaging, and production."
"This is a front-layer gateway that helps to improve our overall performance."
"Lifecycle management."
"The API Gateway lacks the capability to directly facilitate API strategy development or user onboarding workflows."
"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."
"Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function."
"I believe that there could be more features associated with analytics since it is an area where the product lacks."
"There should be more videos and documentation about the new features that are released every month."
"The solution could improve signature validation."
"The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"Proxy versioning seems a bit confusing/buried in the publishing experience, especially for the URI-based versioning approach."
"Better functionality for validating inputs and outputs would be helpful."
"We are experiencing issues with automation; the production in Apigee is quite time-consuming."
"The developer portal's adoption of the OpenAPI standard needs to be improved. In the latest version of the developer portal, they have adopted the OpenAPI standard. This feature, however, can be improved by supporting more characteristics of the OpenAPI standard."
"Technical support model for OPDK should be more exposed and mature in terms of providing support during installation, run, and debug of Apigee in production on OPDK mode."
"It needs predictive analysis of consumption."
"We are experiencing some performance issues."
"The pricing for the product was a bit higher. I also found it challenging to manage sometimes."
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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