We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager 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 because it received higher marks than Mulesoft Anypoint API in the setup and pricing categories.
"Amazon API Gateway is a very fast solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is it has lots of integration."
"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 best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"The solution is solid, robust, and scalable."
"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 developer portal is easy to integrate. It is easy to use, easy to integrate, and I like the developer portal."
"It provides various advantages in the integration field, including support for Azure services and cloud integrations."
"When using the Mulesoft Anypoint Platform, it has a wide range of connectors that are readily available to connect with the multiple applications."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"This is a good API management product."
"Both the cloud and on-premises options are available. Customers can leverage the MuleSoft Cloud platform to deploy the applications or set up their own online infrastructure to deploy applications."
"The ESB, the enterprise service bus is what we primarily use. In addition to that, the API management. These are the two tools which we have been using extensively. The enterprise platform."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"Amazon API Gateway needs to focus on minimizing latency."
"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."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"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."
"The tool's UI requires time to understand."
"The cost model could be improved."
"One improvement is maybe to add a plugin in the API manager. Let's say an organisation is using SOAP services or legacy APIs. Maybe I don't want to migrate it to rest API, but my plugin should be able to convert Jason to XML. Basically, protocol transformation features in API Manager."
"To improve Anypoint API Manager for the next release, it should focus on better consumption scalability, especially for smaller APIs."
"We find that the enterprise level is lacking scalability."
"Better documentation to help explain each of the features would be really helpful."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"There should be more pricing options or certain discounts for the education sector."
"The most important thing that should be improved is that it is too heavy."
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Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager 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 MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "Responsive technical support, low tickets issued showing great stability, and limitless expansion". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Apigee, IBM API Connect, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager report.
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