We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Microsoft Azure API Management based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure is highly regarded for its stability, integration capabilities, and user-friendliness, whereas Amazon is appreciated for its flexibility and ease of use. Azure users express a desire for lower licensing fees, improved integration, and enhanced performance, while Amazon users seek better monitoring and security features. Azure's pricing is considered reasonable but could be more cost-effective, while Amazon's pricing is generally acceptable. The quality of Azure's technical support varies, while Amazon's support is generally satisfactory.
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It is easy to set up. It is also quick to deploy."
"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 product is stable."
"The initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes."
"t is easy for integrations if it is deployed in AWS Services."
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."
"This solution is useful for making new APIs."
"The solution is reliable and very stable."
"The ease of setting up a new solution is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up a new solution and to deploy it to production."
"I like that security features can be integrated with API Management. I also like that you can perform rate-limiting and throttling functions."
"It seems quite good so far. It handles our current workload well, and I'm optimistic it can scale effectively as our needs grow."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the integration of CI/CD with the API gateway."
"The UI management is very easy to use."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use and it is a platform that has self-enablement for the customers to be able to register themselves."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is better because it has a DevOps integration by default."
"Amazon API Gateway can improve the user interface in some areas it could be more polished."
"If I take into consideration the past three to four years, during which I used the tool, I would say that some missing and external configurations were not possible in the product, and it was a bit difficult to manage."
"The user interface, in general, can be better. The user interface for the entire Amazon cloud can be more friendly. There are some scenarios that are not really easy to manage and configure through the user interface."
"The API Gateway lacks the capability to directly facilitate API strategy development or user onboarding workflows."
"The tool's UI requires time to understand."
"Currently, I'm not facing any issues with Amazon API Gateway, which satisfies my requirements. I'm pretty happy with what Amazon API Gateway offers, but as its pricing is on the higher side, that's one area for improvement in the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of Amazon API Gateway is an improvement in the status checks you get from the monitoring feature of the solution. Currently, you get the number of requests received, the number of reports, etc., but if there are more details than what's given by Amazon API Gateway, that will improve the solution."
"Their support services come at a considerable cost, leaving room for improvement."
"I believe better governance and monitoring features would be beneficial."
"Microsoft Azure API Management should have the ability to allow multitenancy."
"Microsoft Azure API Management's most valuable features are the microservices we used to use. They were API callers to receive communication with the network and building system, to complete the request. The response would be through the processing system."
"There is a limitation of 32 kb of data in the APIs. Having the limitation increase would be a benefit."
"It can be quite complex, somewhat lacking in flexibility."
"Some of the DevOps stuff could be easier to work with. The migration paths are a little complicated, and moving code around could be more seamless. There should be less manual migration when several teams work together to publish code to the DevOps."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is lagging behind Apigee and should also have a better CICD process."
"They're trying to implement versioning and trying to be able to manage different versions of your API all at the same time, but they're not doing that just quite right yet."
"The external policies are impossible to look at and configure."
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Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 67 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure API Management 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 Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise, IBM API Connect and WSO2 API Manager. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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