Compare Amazon API Gateway vs. Layer7 API Management
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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
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"The initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes." "The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support." "This solution is useful for making new APIs." "This solution gives you a unified way to have your API accessed." "In terms of most valuable features, it would say that it is really easy to start working with it." "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." "It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway." | "There are a few assertions which are built-in for threat protection. I have used them for vulnerabilities, like for DDoS attacks, XML schema validation, IP restriction, and for cross-domain." "From a security standpoint, it works great. It is the right solution for us. It's lightweight, a software-appliance configuration which was easy to deploy and configure." "The solution helped us to quickly publish and monetize APIs. I have used versioning responses to publish or send APIs to different customers with different versions." "As an organization grow, you can use CA API Management for authentication purposes through the CA API Gateway. It allows for multiple identity providers with different Active Directories." "I work for an information security company. CA API Management is capable of using tokens for authorization to manage access control for the APIs." "This improved our organization, because it gives the management data to discuss for the next course of action and it suggests what to work on, as the next thing." "It impresses me as a product because it never goes down. It always does what it is supposed to do." "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." |
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"Like most Amazon services, and this one's the same, you're expected to effectively do your own support, and any other support is by emails, so it's quite limited." "It's hard to configure. There's a lot of options but it's very hard, it's very confusing." "There should be more videos and documentation about the new features that are released every month." "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." "It would be useful to have a more complete development environment for the developer, with different integrative capabilities to manage all the life cycles for the API. I think the full version formula for that is really useful. They should improve the development environment for easier integration." "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." "I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support." | "There are old algorithms that the tool does not support - and it shouldn't, in my opinion. But sometimes customers need old algorithms, from old use cases and old applications, migrated to the platform. At those times, there are hiccups that happen." "The entire lifecycle management approach needs improvement: from the API management, development, deployment, some of the settings around the quotas, and some security policy applications, etc. for the APIs. We found the Apigee platform a lot more robust in that area." "The implementation of CA API Management was complex. It is a complicated solution. You have to know so much IT knowledge to do the implementation." "They need a workflow for the API Developer Portal, where the process only allows requests to go to the correct person." "One specific feature that we need is the ability to authenticate directly to the server with API data. It's not complex nowadays. This is a feature that we need and CA doesn't have it." "From the last version, they have added more dashboard support, but there is still a lot they need to improve. In terms of monitoring, it's almost all covered. The interface can be improved, though." "Some users say that the API lacks some features and is lagging behind the competition although that has not been my personal experience." "The interface is Java which is difficult to make look very nice." |
Pricing and Cost Advice | |
"This is a pay-per-use service, where you only pay for what you use." | "For what we are after, the pricing is okay. It is competitive." "It has a reasonable pricing model by instance." "APIs can be developed to provide security. We can show them in one single pane of glass, such as the CA API Management API Developer Portal. It is there that we can provide the monetization for their APIs and what is happening on third-party applications, like Paytm or BookMyShow." "CA API Management has a licensing path. If you want more features, it requires more licenses and more installation time." "At the time we bought the product it was a perpetual users license and there has been no need for additional licensing fees." "There are some costs for maintenance that we are charged, but that seems fair because we get the support." "Keep in mind the non-product licensing, e.g., if you opt not to use the embedded SQL." "If you do a TCO of more than five years, then you will see a big jump in costs for some vendors." |
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Ask a question Earn 20 points | Top Answer: 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. Top Answer: Keep in mind the non-product licensing, e.g., if you opt not to use the embedded SQL. If you do a TCO of more than five years, then you will see a big jump in costs for some vendors. Make sure you… more » Top Answer: 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… more » |
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Views 11,317 Comparisons 9,909 Reviews 7 Average Words per Review 461 Rating 7.6 | Views 11,589 Comparisons 5,825 Reviews 12 Average Words per Review 792 Rating 7.9 |
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Also Known As | |
| CA API Management, CA Live API Creator, Espresso Logic, CA API Gateway | |
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Overview | |
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can create an API that acts as a "front door" for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your back-end services, such as workloads running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), code running on AWS Lambda, or any Web application. | To compete successfully and thrive today, enterprises across every industry need to transform. This process is not just about incremental improvement, but about evolving core businesses to meet the demands of today’s connected world. CA API Management accelerates this digital transformation by providing the capabilities you need to bring systems together, secure these integrations, deliver better customer experiences faster and capitalize on new opportunities. Read more at http://www.ca.com/api |
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Sample Customers | |
| Autodesk, Fox Digital Consumer Group, iFlix, UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), Miovision, Olympusat, PhotoVogue, Royale International Group, Veracode | Alaska Airlines, The Advisory Board Company, Amerigroup, IceMobile, R+V Versicherung, U.S. Army - plus hundreds of other customers in the banking, energy, finance, healthcare, government, manufacturing, transportation and retail sectors. |
Top Industries | |
Computer Software Company32% Comms Service Provider13% Media Company12% Financial Services Firm7% | Financial Services Firm25% Insurance Company10% Retailer8% Comms Service Provider8% Computer Software Company32% Financial Services Firm11% Comms Service Provider10% Media Company8% |
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No Data Available | Small Business13% Midsize Enterprise13% Large Enterprise75% Small Business1% Midsize Enterprise16% Large Enterprise83% |
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon API Gateway vs. Layer7 API Management and other solutions. Updated: January 2021.
456,812 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 7th in API Management with 7 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 5th in API Management with 11 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 7.6, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "A scalable solution with End-to-end protection for your service, and ties in well with the AWS ecosystem". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Serves to standardise routing messaging services into a single API view with multiple channels". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, IBM API Connect and WSO2 API Manager, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect and Kong Enterprise. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Layer7 API Management report.
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