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.
"In terms of scalability, I haven't encountered any issues with API Gateway. We've significantly increased our traffic from hitting it once or twice a minute to now hitting it ten to fifteen times within a minute. In an hour, we're receiving hundreds of hits. So, it's performing excellently."
"It allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them."
"It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"It is a stable solution."
"Amazon API Gateway can integrate with ECS and Lambda."
"The solution is a managed service and requires minimal configuration, which makes it easy to launch an API."
"Integrating API Gateway with other AWS services was easy. It worked out of the box, so it worked perfectly."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent."
"It has all the features necessary to work in anything from a basic scenario to advanced applications."
"I like implementing different policies, for example, rate-limiting policy."
"It is easy to deploy, configure, and monitor the APA."
"The most valuable feature is the API gateway."
"Apigee is a very lightweight solution."
"The opportunity for customization is really vast and it is a really good feature built into the product."
"The most valuable feature is monetization."
"The central monitoring feature is the most valuable. It also provides security for the APIs and high availability for our use cases. Apigee is the best product in the industry in comparison to other API management solutions. It helps in fast development, which is a top point. It also supports a lot of industry standards and has excellent documentation."
"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."
"Amazon API Gateway can improve the user interface in some areas it could be more polished."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"There are certain restrictions that cannot be implemented without web access."
"The only real problem is that you have to know a lot about what is outside of the API gateway in order to make the best use of it."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"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."
"I would like them to add features, such as caching and mediation policies."
"Apigee could improve by integrating with more identity providers and offering a default authentication module."
"The ability to work across different management solutions in a plug and play fashion would make it easier for faster uptake."
"It needs predictive analysis of consumption."
"Areas like traffic handling of incoming requests, security features between third-parties and Apigee, and between Apigee and internal network servers, resources, or JSON areas, etc."
"I would like to see better integration and some architectural improvements in future releases of the solution."
"The setup and installation process could be improved with a container-based system."
"They need to work on the cost of the solution."
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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