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 technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"In terms of most valuable features, it would say that it is really easy to start working with it."
"The most valuable feature is it has lots of integration."
"It is very helpful, with our API-based applications."
"It's flexible. It was valuable."
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."
"It is a stable solution."
"A big win for CA was the expertise of the local country support plus having support staff on site in a matter of hours, if required."
"The Portal API helps us with deployments. It also helps to have a catalog of everything. The replication is also a critical feature for us. It helps to have a more robust architecture and makes our systems are highly available."
"We have more than 50 applications in the backend. We monitor the infrastructure through a database monitoring tool. Our daily tasks involve working on P1 incidents, managing change requests, conducting patching updates, working on P2 tickets, backend server certificate renewals, etc."
"The Gateway can front our APIs very easily."
"You can create little, custom Java assertions that you can insert to do your business logic, which might not be covered by the commercial product out-of-the-box."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Layer7 API Management are integration, ease of use, building APIs easily, and portal straightforward."
"What I found most valuable in Layer7 API Management is that you can launch the API from the gateway quickly and securely, making it less complicated to deploy APIs. I also like that Layer7 API Management has a good portal and dashboards and that the dashboards show you statistics regarding how many people used the API, etc."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"Amazon API Gateway needs to focus on minimizing latency."
"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."
"The user interface, in general, can be better. The user interface for the entire Amazon cloud can be more friendly. There are some scenarios that are not really easy to manage and configure through the user interface."
"The integration could be improved."
"The solution could improve signature validation."
"Amazon API Gateway can improve the user interface in some areas it could be more polished."
"There should be more videos and documentation about the new features that are released every month."
"The Portal lacks maturity. Since the move from Portal 3.x to 4.x, a lot of features were removed. It is slowly coming back. I can see a lot of changes are done in the "background" to decouple components and make it more flexible. Those changes are just not getting to the UI side quick enough."
"As a SaaS product, control over some configuration elements and environments is lost."
"Layer7 API Management could improve by assing more portal-based capabilities."
"They should incorporate deeper monitoring features into the solution to make the offering more complete. Doing so would help to showcase traffic patterns and usage to better engage customers and partners proactively. It would also help with API management and capacity planning."
"Some problems with response time."
"The interface is Java which is difficult to make look very nice."
"There could be more integration options included in the product."
"The development toolkit used for creating APIs should be more online and user-friendly. Deployment and tracking could also be improved. Tools like Apigee provide a complete online experience along with RESTful APIs, to manage all activities. It is a very nice and user-friendly solution compared to CA."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 32 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 108 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 IBM API Connect, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong 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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