We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Layer7 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."It is a stable solution."
"Amazon API Gateway facilitates our serverless architecture, particularly with Lambda, by allowing us to perform various tasks. For instance, Lambda functions authorize API calls, execute multiple workloads, and integrate with other services like Azure and Kubernetes. Additionally, we leverage Lambda functions behind the Amazon API Gateway to query databases, process data, and interact with different systems."
"Integrating API Gateway with other AWS services was easy. It worked out of the box, so it worked perfectly."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"This solution is useful for making new APIs."
"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."
"A big win for CA was the expertise of the local country support plus having support staff on site in a matter of hours, if required."
"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 most valuable feature is that it enables me to present data in the format that the client wants to consume it. That client might be a visualization tool, that client might be a report, that client might be a customer's API requirements."
"The actual management of APIs is fundamental to us, as we're a heavy API user/provider. So, obviously, a centralised management platform is important."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"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."
"Compared to other vendors, this product is much faster in coming up with new features, which is good."
"API Management makes dealing with APIs easier. It'll help you to move ahead on your API application journey. The solution allows developers to create more advanced security policies"
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"Its support for SAM integration could be made more accessible."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"I believe that there could be more features associated with analytics since it is an area where the product lacks."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"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."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"It's hard to configure. There's a lot of options but it's very hard, it's very confusing."
"It is not possible for clients to migrate to a newer version."
"Layer7 API Management could improve by assing more portal-based capabilities."
"I understand that clients are often concerned about costs. They might be exploring other options due to the high cost associated with our current package."
"The development portal could be improved."
"As well as the SOA Gateway - that is, the API Gateway; we call it the SOA Gateway - we also are now deploying the developer portal component of the SOA Gateway. That has limitations."
"The overall cost of Layer7 API Management is high, they can improve it by making it less expensive."
"One day, where we can have a microservices gateway and we will not need the classic gateway at all, that is what we want to see."
"The entire lifecycle management approach needs improvement: from the API management, development, deployment, some of the settings around the quotas, and some security policy applications, etc. for the APIs. We found the Apigee platform a lot more robust in that area."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 110 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Layer7 API Management is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Layer7 API Management writes "Has great drag-and-drop features and it requires minimal coding ". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Layer7 API Management is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management and IBM API Connect. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Layer7 API Management report.
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