We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Layer7 API Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Amazon API Gateway can integrate with ECS and Lambda."
"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."
"It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"This solution gives you a unified way to have your API accessed."
"Integrating API Gateway with other AWS services was easy. It worked out of the box, so it worked perfectly."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Its security feature is the most valuable because it is mainly a security solution. It has easy authentication and authorization, and its integration is also useful."
"The solution fills our two most important concerns in seeking an API solution by providing a reliable gateway and security options."
"The out-of-the-box security features are useful. Right now, you can just right-click and drag and drop the assertions with the rate limit. That, as well as the x-amount surge protection, is built in so we can bring that in."
"We are able to go to market very quickly and deploy our functionalities very quickly."
"Mobile app capabilities is good for building mobile apps to consume developed APIs. Also, the API Portal capabilities are very nice, up to and including the ability to do monetization. Security features are exhaustive, with several adapters to all leading identity suites."
"There are many security policies within this solution that help to prevent attacks. We are also able to implement TLS to allow us to look at the application from the backend. There are workflows inside of the gate that help us a lot to implement customers and improve user experience. Our customers are also able to move from a customized creative view to taking advantage of AI bot solutions."
"It is flexible in how it creates custom policies and uses builds with impressive methods."
"Some of the performance matrix that API Gateway gives off, we monitor them via SNMP traps, and then we tie them into our monitoring system. You can actually monitor some of the latencies and some of the performance aspects of both API Gateways, as well back end services. So having that line of sight surely helps in terms DevOps."
"Has great drag-and-drop features and requires minimal coding."
"They could include more support tools in the product."
"Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function."
"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."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"Its support for SAM integration could be made more accessible."
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"I believe better governance and monitoring features would be beneficial."
"The solution could improve signature validation."
"One of the features that the tool provides is the ability to simply onboard new APIs to an existing security platform. We build all the policies for security upfront, and then we can add those policies pretty simply and straightforwardly to any new API that gets developed in the enterprise."
"The API Development tool can be made more user-friendly by providing folder properties."
"The UI design could be improved in the next release."
"The interface is Java which is difficult to make look very nice."
"The overall cost of Layer7 API Management is high, they can improve it by making it less expensive."
"The interface should be improved."
"It needs better mobile features and HA configuration."
"As the number of instances increases, its complexity of installation increases if you do not use the OVA."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management and IBM API Connect. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Layer7 API Management report.
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