We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Tyk 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."It allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them."
"It is easy to set up. It is also quick to deploy."
"It is a stable solution."
"It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway."
"All information and data needs to be sanitized before it enters a private domain and we use this solution to do this."
"The solution is stable."
"Amazon API Gateway is a very fast solution."
"t is easy for integrations if it is deployed in AWS Services."
"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."
"The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security."
"The scalability is very good. That was a key factor in the selection, like how it could be pushed to high volume and scalability, which seemed to be very good."
"It is a good product for API management."
"The most valuable feature is the load balancing with the circuit-breaker function."
"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."
"Amazon API Gateway can improve the user interface in some areas it could be more polished."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function."
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"When working with XML payloads, there can be issues due to the lack of a seamless connection between API Gateway and Lambda functions."
"They could include more support tools in the product."
"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."
"We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed."
"We ran it for a while, but then we decided to move away from Tyk, because Tyk's cloud version, the SaaS version, has a significant limitation of limited flexibility, so you can't program very much."
"It is a young product and does not have the kind of brand recognition that would make it a more popular solution with our clients."
"I would like to see some additional features like having some extensions for .NET core because we use it for our back-end language."
"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."
"In terms of our usage, the main area of concern is that they tend to build enhancements slightly ahead of the considerations for what those enhancements and extensions are. So it could be slightly better communication with the customer base that would be my main issue with them."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Tyk is ranked 17th in API Management with 6 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Tyk is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tyk writes "Simple to install, has many features, but lacks support for multiple programming languages". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and webMethods.io Integration, whereas Tyk is most compared with Apache APISIX, Traefik Enterprise, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management and WSO2 API Manager. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Tyk report.
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