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.
"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."
"It allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them."
"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."
"Amazon API Gateway can integrate with ECS and Lambda."
"Integrating API Gateway with other AWS services was easy. It worked out of the box, so it worked perfectly."
"It is a stable solution."
"Amazon API Gateway is a very fast 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."
"It's easy to use and the security features are valuable."
"There is plenty of support documentation available."
"Apigee is relatively easy to use for developers."
"The security provided by the solution is excellent."
"Apigee provides out-of-the-box policies, so it is ready to use with minimal configuration to those policies. You can govern your API and manage the life cycle of the API completely with the Apigee tool."
"Apigee is a pioneer in the industry and has good features and functionalities. It is a good tool for API management and it has more advancements than all other tools in the market in certain areas."
"It has all the features necessary to work in anything from a basic scenario to advanced applications."
"The most valuable feature is monetization."
"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."
"The only real problem is that you have to know a lot about what is outside of the API gateway in order to make the best use of it."
"Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function."
"The user interface, in general, can be better. The user interface for the entire Amazon cloud can be more friendly. There are some scenarios that are not really easy to manage and configure through the user interface."
"Its support for SAM integration could be made more accessible."
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"It's hard to configure. There's a lot of options but it's very hard, it's very confusing."
"The API Gateway lacks the capability to directly facilitate API strategy development or user onboarding workflows."
"As it is now, the rotation of certificates is a manual task and is something that can be improved."
"When it comes to the rate limit, we don't have a specific category for rate limits for a particular customer."
"The solution tends to hide the limitations to keep selling the product."
"We've encountered challenges in leveraging Connect functionality, prompting us to explore additional tools, such as Fergus, to address implementation and security issues."
"The account simplification process can be improved."
"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 Apigee cloud admin UI could be more user-friendly by adding a few more features."
"Sometimes there are glitches, which means there's still room for improvement in the platform."
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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