We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Apigee based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon API Gateway has a slight edge in this comparison due to it being the less expensive solution.
"The most valuable feature in Amazon API Gateway is the itinerary release."
"It is very helpful, with our API-based applications."
"It is a stable solution."
"It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"In terms of scalability, I haven't encountered any issues with API Gateway. We've significantly increased our traffic from hitting it once or twice a minute to now hitting it ten to fifteen times within a minute. In an hour, we're receiving hundreds of hits. So, it's performing excellently."
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"Lifecycle management."
"The most valuable features are low-code play, quick packaging, and production."
"The tool is one of the earliest API management products and is good. It reduces the Time To Market aspects of products."
"The usability is one of the best aspects of the product."
"API/proxy lifecycle workflow for API providers is quite good and one of Apigee's strongest features."
"Highly scalable from any initial topology to horizontal extension"
"It has a very efficient logging system which is easy to maintain."
"Apigee has better scalability than WSA."
"There should be more videos and documentation about the new features that are released every month."
"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."
"From a use cases perspective, you need to have an internal and external gateway. AWS can only handle external traffic so has to be used together with another solution."
"They could include more support tools in the product."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"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 tool's UI requires time to understand."
"The API Gateway lacks the capability to directly facilitate API strategy development or user onboarding workflows."
"The pricing of the solution could be improved upon. We'd like it if it was less costly."
"The analytical aspect of it could be better. I think it is fair if Apigee lets you configure some of the metrics of the key details you want to monitor in terms of analytics."
"Apigee lacks market presence."
"Better functionality for validating inputs and outputs would be helpful."
"Drag and drop of features would be more beneficial, rather than manually working on the configuration and updates."
"The entire user across all the layers should be singly authenticated through an external authentication system."
"Role-based access management needs to be improved. It would also be nice if the solution could be integrated with code versioning systems like Git/Bitbucket."
"The technical support could be improved because their response time is slow."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Apigee is ranked 2nd in API Management with 82 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Apigee is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Apigee report.
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