We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise 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."The most valuable feature in Amazon API Gateway is the itinerary release."
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent."
"This solution gives you a unified way to have your API accessed."
"It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway."
"The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"Protocol transformation is the most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise."
"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."
"This is a solid intrusion prevention system that combines a firewall and antivirus in a single solution."
"Kong enterprise has significantly enhanced our ability to manage and secure our Microservices. Its most valuable feature is monitoring."
"I like everything about it. It provides the security we need."
"The most valuable features of Kong Enterprise are the out-of-the-box open source easy functionality."
"It boasts remarkable speed and stability, and these qualities, particularly the gateway's resilience, are standout features for me."
"Kong Enterprise has excellent plugin support."
"Amazon API Gateway needs to focus on minimizing latency."
"A lower price would definitely be an improvement."
"Since the first invocation of AWS Lambda takes more than 30 seconds because of Lambda's cold start, Amazon API Gateway blocks that resource, thereby aborting the invocation."
"Amazon API Gateway is not as complete as Apigee and needs to be improved by adding more features to become a more robust application."
"There should be more videos and documentation about the new features that are released every month."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"The integration could be improved."
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"The OS upgrades are not as frequent as they should be and they are bulky."
"Because it is open-source, it should be less expensive than others."
"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."
"We would like to see an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."
"The technical support team's response time needs to be improved."
"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."
"It becomes difficult if you try to scale it up to multiple clusters."
"The developer portal needs to be improved."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 18 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Kong Gateway Enterprise is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". 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". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Layer7 API Management, whereas Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Layer7 API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Kong Gateway Enterprise report.
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