We performed a comparison between Akana API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."It allowed us to publish and replace pre-essential transactions in one place, with a uniformity in terms of control and policies."
"The tool's authentication mechanism is easy to implement. We had to define a few parameters."
"Good interface, intuitive solution."
"There are a few features that I like about Kong when it comes to authentication and authorization. Specifically, being able to use Kong for role-based access control (RBAC), and then further being able to integrate the RBAC mechanism with our enterprise directory, was very useful."
"The solution provides good performance."
"The tool's scalability is good...The solution's technical support is good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it seamlessly supports a vast number of tools."
"This is a solid intrusion prevention system that combines a firewall and antivirus in a single solution."
"Protocol transformation is the most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise."
"The most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise is its capability to integrate with various security tools."
"We use the solution for load-balancing, caching, and rate-limiting APIs."
"The product has new features that we are going to implement in the next few months, such as API management and analytic reporting."
"Lacks an integrated billing feature."
"Akana API Management needs to improve its documentation."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Kong is meant for north-south communications, so it will be interesting to see what solutions they can come up with in the realms of east-west communications, service-to-service communications, and Zero Trust architecture. I believe that if they can provide for these areas, then they will be able to solve the overall integration and security concerns for microservices architecture in general."
"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."
"The developer portal needs to be improved."
"Kong Enterprise has decided not to support the web portal feature anymore, but I think that feature should stay in the on-premises solution."
"It becomes difficult if you try to scale it up to multiple clusters."
"There should be an easier way to integrate with other solutions, even though it's the same API solution layer. Comparability will be a good improvement."
"Kong Enterprise fails to provide live tracing of the APIs, which is possible nowadays."
Akana API Management is ranked 27th in API Management with 3 reviews while Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 18 reviews. Akana API Management is rated 8.4, while Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Akana API Management writes "Authentication mechanism is easy to implement but improvement is needed in documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kong Gateway Enterprise writes "Provides role-based access control and can be easily customized with Lua script". Akana API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Amazon API Gateway, Microsoft Azure API Management and IBM API Connect, whereas Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Apache APISIX.
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