We performed a comparison between Layer7 API Management and Microsoft Azure 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."Compared to other vendors, this product is much faster in coming up with new features, which is good."
"It's a comprehensive tool that allows us to perform all the necessary tasks in one place."
"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."
"There are a couple aspects of performance. One is just speed and uptime, and it's stellar in that regard. The other is, how much effort is it to put it in place in the first place, and then how much effort is it to keep it operational. That's where its real strength is. I'm able to do things quickly and easily that I couldn't do before."
"It's pretty easy to use, and once we have templating set up we can add new APIs, at least through the gateway, and apply the security to them; it takes a minute."
"The security checking authentication is our primary use case for this solution."
"I work for an information security company. CA API Management is capable of using tokens for authorization to manage access control for the APIs."
"It allows us to keep clear traceability of the changes made in each of our APIs."
"The user management is pretty seamless."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure API Management is monitoring. When compared with Apigee, I prefer Microsoft Azure API Management."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is better because it has a DevOps integration by default."
"The API management and the hosting of the API platform are great."
"The Azure Active Directory Synchronization is quite good."
"Monitoring: It gives us a detailed overview of how clients are using the API and it allows us to see the consumption trends in real-time."
"I like that security features can be integrated with API Management. I also like that you can perform rate-limiting and throttling functions."
"The documentation and configuration of APIs."
"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."
"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."
"We are looking for improvements related to integration. We want to see them add integration tools to the CA bundle. That would be helpful."
"Layer7 API Management could improve by assing more portal-based capabilities."
"The interface is Java which is difficult to make look very nice."
"The solution should prioritize ease of use and align with the growing trend of cloud-native environments."
"The CA API Management solution has good security features, but when it comes to being used in areas like enterprise integration, where it is being used as middleware for all the IT environments, that particular feature is quite limited. It doesn't support as many protocols as an industry standard, competing product should."
"As a SaaS product, control over some configuration elements and environments is lost."
"The licensing tiers can be misleading."
"Specific to API development, I think Microsoft is still far behind AWS. AWS has grown by leaps and bounds, and Microsoft is a close second. But in terms of features and other stuff they provide, Microsoft's compatibility with publicly available APIs is a little limited. So, that is a little bit of a constraint. But what they provide is good, it's just that they need to build more on their API suite. I think Google is doing a really good job at that."
"They should improve the inbuilt policies that they have and that should properly create a deployment architecture as well."
"The scalability of this solution could be improved. The volume which the API Management task service can handle needs to be improved. Cost wise, this solution could be optimized."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface and workflow for hosting APIs, especially third-party APIs."
"The solution’s security and performance could be improved."
"Microsoft Azure API Management needs to improve stability."
"When you start with Azure API management, you also need to onboard the Azure console and the Azure cloud environment, which comes with a price."
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Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 108 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 67 reviews. Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Enterprise, Amazon API Gateway, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and IBM API Connect, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Enterprise and 3scale API Management. See our Layer7 API Management vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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