We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Microsoft Azure API Management based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure is highly regarded for its stability, integration capabilities, and user-friendliness, whereas Amazon is appreciated for its flexibility and ease of use. Azure users express a desire for lower licensing fees, improved integration, and enhanced performance, while Amazon users seek better monitoring and security features. Azure's pricing is considered reasonable but could be more cost-effective, while Amazon's pricing is generally acceptable. The quality of Azure's technical support varies, while Amazon's support is generally satisfactory.
"The initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes."
"Amazon API Gateway can integrate with ECS and Lambda."
"It is easy to set up. It is also quick to deploy."
"The solution is stable."
"It is a stable solution."
"It's flexible. It was valuable."
"t is easy for integrations if it is deployed in AWS Services."
"It is very helpful, with our API-based applications."
"Allows the possibility of VPN technology to connect your gateway directly with on-prem services"
"The product gives API gateway-related features, like throttling, which are easy to use and low-code/no-code."
"The ability to easily connect back to Service Fabric is the most important for us."
"Without a doubt, it has a very robust, strong marketplace where we can directly integrate with existing APIs and begin working on those."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure API Management is monitoring. When compared with Apigee, I prefer Microsoft Azure API Management."
"I like API Management's ability to do hybrid cloud stuff."
"It's easier to use and has more features than Google."
"The solution is quite stable. We have no issues with it. there have been no crashes and we haven't experienced bugs or glitches. It's been quite reliable."
"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."
"Amazon API Gateway needs to focus on minimizing latency."
"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 API Gateway lacks the capability to directly facilitate API strategy development or user onboarding workflows."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"Their support services come at a considerable cost, leaving room for 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."
"The external policies are impossible to look at and configure."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is lagging behind Apigee and should also have a better CICD process."
"There is always room for improvement. There should be more analytics abilities so you can know how much traffic there is. Log Analyzer isn't well integrated with this solution."
"The hybrid part could be improved because API Management is entirely cloud-based, but some of our resources are on-prem, so formatting is an issue. Our goal is dual implementation."
"The API gateway can be very complex."
"Price is the first thing that comes to mind. It's quite expensive, which could be a barrier for some users."
"The licensing tiers can be misleading."
"Azure is our most expensive resource; it's costly."
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Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 67 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure API Management 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 Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise, IBM API Connect and WSO2 API Manager. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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