We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and WSO2 API Manager based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon API Gateway finishes slightly ahead in this comparison. Amazon is very flexible and offers very good integrations, especially within the Amazon ecosystem. Many WSO2 API Manager users feel the solution has some stability and performance issues, making it less desirable.
"The product is stable."
"What I like best about Amazon API Gateway is that it's simple to use, easy to set up, and you can quickly get it up and running. It's a very user-friendly solution. I also didn't experience any issues in terms of Amazon API Gateway interface, integration, or monitoring. The solution runs smoothly."
"It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway."
"It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"All information and data needs to be sanitized before it enters a private domain and we use this solution to do this."
"t is easy for integrations if it is deployed in AWS Services."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Amazon API Gateway is a very fast solution."
"This solution is a little bit faster, easier to use, and has better integration than the other solutions I have experienced."
"The user interface is easy to navigate, and the documentation is extensive. It's open-source, so everything is available, and we can create what we need. That's not necessarily a feature, but it's an advantage."
"There are a lot of tools to help the manager. WSO2 is very easy to install. It has all the principal functionalities that you think about when you want to put up the management solution. It's a very friendly tool."
"The solution is open-source."
"The main feature — the publication of the API, the management section — is great in general."
"WSO2 is very stable."
"WSO2 API Manager's most valuable features are the simple interface that is easy to use and the APIs lifecycle."
"Functionality-wise, I like WSO2 API Manager - Publisher API and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus."
"The integration could be improved."
"The solution could improve signature validation."
"They could include more support tools in the product."
"The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"A lower price would definitely be an improvement."
"Their support services come at a considerable cost, leaving room for improvement."
"I believe better governance and monitoring features would be beneficial."
"When working with XML payloads, there can be issues due to the lack of a seamless connection between API Gateway and Lambda functions."
"The technical support must be improved."
"The solution could be more user friendly for engineers."
"WSO2 API Manager could increase their security compliance."
"We had some problems with the reverse proxy not being able to invoke fully qualified domain names, so we have to build some custom scripts to solve this issue."
"From a product perspective, the first thing is that although the documentation provided by WSO2 is good, it could be much better. We're in the middle of a complex migration, moving away from VMs to Kubernetes with the latest version of WSO2 and good documentation is essential to us right now."
"From what I have experienced from the versions I have tried, they could improve on the multi-tenant environments to allow some kind of SSO single sign-on between tenant."
"Providing easy configuration for email and SMS notifications, layout and customization of admin and developer landing pages."
"I would improve the product documentation. There are some gaps, and it can be difficult to find the proper documentation for the product if you need to solve something."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 7th in API Management with 33 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while WSO2 API Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Microsoft Azure API Management, Apache APISIX and 3scale API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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