We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and WSO2 API Manager based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon API Gateway finishes slightly ahead in this comparison. Amazon is very flexible and offers very good integrations, especially within the Amazon ecosystem. Many WSO2 API Manager users feel the solution has some stability and performance issues, making it less desirable.
"It allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them."
"The solution is stable."
"It is a stable solution."
"Amazon API Gateway is a very fast solution."
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."
"In terms of most valuable features, it would say that it is really easy to start working with it."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution is a managed service and requires minimal configuration, which makes it easy to launch an API."
"Most of the time, we need to install a plug-in without having any lapse in services or restarting the application. The WSO2 platform can do all deployments without any downtime."
"WSO2 is very stable."
"Its open-source features are very good, especially for your production work."
"The documentation is good."
"The main feature — the publication of the API, the management section — is great in general."
"There are a lot of tools to help the manager. WSO2 is very easy to install. It has all the principal functionalities that you think about when you want to put up the management solution. It's a very friendly tool."
"One of the great things about WSO2 API Manager is that it is so easy to adopt. And because it's an open source solution, we're able to extend the implementation any time to suit our company needs better."
"The solution is open source and easy to configure."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"There should be more videos and documentation about the new features that are released every month."
"The tool's UI requires time to understand."
"The solution could improve signature validation."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"Its performance and scalability could be better compared to one of its competitors."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"I believe better governance and monitoring features would be beneficial."
"The price and the complexities attached to the solution are two areas of concern where improvements are required."
"Integration is an area that needs to be improved."
"The user interface could be a bit better."
"Based on our recent large scaling project, the latency needs to be improved."
"WSO2 API Manager can be improved a lot relating to usability"
"Basically, mTLS is a certificate-based communication protocol that WSO2 API Manager doesn't support."
"I would improve the product documentation. There are some gaps, and it can be difficult to find the proper documentation for the product if you need to solve something."
"The interface needs to be modernized and made more user friendly so the product continues to have a growing community of users."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Microsoft Azure API Management, Apache APISIX and 3scale API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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