We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager 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 because it received higher marks than Mulesoft Anypoint API in the setup and pricing categories.
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."
"Integrating API Gateway with other AWS services was easy. It worked out of the box, so it worked perfectly."
"The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"Amazon stack is easy to use in combination with other Amazon services, so it was a logical continuity."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"All information and data needs to be sanitized before it enters a private domain and we use this solution to do this."
"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."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Its best feature is that its plugins are somewhat unique in the market. We have budgets, Prime membership, and pre-plugins available in the marketplace that we can use immediately."
"The ESB, the enterprise service bus is what we primarily use. In addition to that, the API management. These are the two tools which we have been using extensively. The enterprise platform."
"The scalability is good. It's passable."
"When using the Mulesoft Anypoint Platform, it has a wide range of connectors that are readily available to connect with the multiple applications."
"Both the cloud and on-premises options are available. Customers can leverage the MuleSoft Cloud platform to deploy the applications or set up their own online infrastructure to deploy applications."
"It provides various advantages in the integration field, including support for Azure services and cloud integrations."
"Anypoint API Manager's most valuable feature is its connectors."
"Its performance and scalability could be better compared to one of its competitors."
"Currently, I'm not facing any issues with Amazon API Gateway, which satisfies my requirements. I'm pretty happy with what Amazon API Gateway offers, but as its pricing is on the higher side, that's one area for improvement in the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of Amazon API Gateway is an improvement in the status checks you get from the monitoring feature of the solution. Currently, you get the number of requests received, the number of reports, etc., but if there are more details than what's given by Amazon API Gateway, that will improve the solution."
"It's hard to configure. There's a lot of options but it's very hard, it's very confusing."
"The solution could improve signature validation."
"There are certain restrictions that cannot be implemented without web access."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Its support for SAM integration could be made more accessible."
"I believe that there could be more features associated with analytics since it is an area where the product lacks."
"Since most components are situated in the cloud, there's one particular hosted in the cloud. This presents a considerable challenge. While all other components are implemented on-premises, this specific one isn't permitted to be hosted in the cloud as per customer requirements. Shifting this component to an on-premises environment requires a significant effort."
"It is not a very scalable solution."
"Their studio performance is very slow, it requires a lot of memory, and should be improved."
"Better documentation to help explain each of the features would be really helpful."
"There should be more pricing options or certain discounts for the education sector."
"I would like to see more automation. Operations are done manually. It should also automate in the operation."
"I'd like more monitoring and analyzing features included in the future."
"To improve Anypoint API Manager for the next release, it should focus on better consumption scalability, especially for smaller APIs."
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Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is ranked 4th in API Management with 47 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager 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 MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager writes "Responsive technical support, low tickets issued showing great stability, and limitless expansion". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, Apigee, IBM API Connect, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager report.
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