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.
"It allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent."
"The solution is a managed service and requires minimal configuration, which makes it easy to launch an API."
"The product is stable."
"The developer portal is very useful to customers."
"We can customize the dashboard."
"The use case which I have installed serves the intended purpose."
"I think the most valuable features are the security features. Of course, the user access control is the same as the security. The other very important issue is the sandboxing capability of Apigee."
"Apigee gives you plenty of opportunities to set up your workspace depending on how you want to manage your APIs."
"Anyone with basic knowledge can build an API."
"It's easy to use and the security features are valuable."
"A simple platform that's easier to work with than IBM API Connect. Support for it is really good and gives it advantage over other providers."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"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."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"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."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"The integration could be improved."
"Their support services come at a considerable cost, leaving room for improvement."
"There are certain restrictions that cannot be implemented without web access."
"What my clients don't like is that the on-premises solution is not being treated and maintained as well as the cloud solution."
"The solution’s scalability could be improved."
"The cost of the solution is quite high."
"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."
"I would like them to add features, such as caching and mediation policies."
"Integration should be improved."
"The pricing of the solution could be improved upon. We'd like it if it was less costly."
"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."
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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