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 easy to set up. It is also quick to deploy."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Amazon API Gateway is a very fast solution."
"The solution is a managed service and requires minimal configuration, which makes it easy to launch an API."
"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."
"The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"It is very helpful, with our API-based applications."
"The Mobile API Gateway is also great."
"Every API that we get from external or from internal goes through this layer first, and it should not be a bottleneck. That was the problem we had before. Now it's no longer a bottleneck. It's more like a throughput, this process is less than 10 milliseconds for any particular API."
"They have got a very compelling platform that enables organizations to easily develop and roll out mobile applications."
"It is able to withstand the number of API calls and handle different API requirements to secure, transform, log, and track API usage patterns."
"The mobile access gateway (MAG) is tremendous."
"The most valuable feature was the gateway because it has a good dashboard which shows all the hits, misses, and issues, how often you are viewing, what was the response time, etc. The gateway was very easy to deploy."
"It allows us to keep clear traceability of the changes made in each of our APIs."
"It is fairly stable for the Gateway side."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"There are certain restrictions that cannot be implemented without web access."
"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."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in terms of innovation and investment, especially when compared to other leading products in the market."
"The UI design could be improved in the next release."
"There is still room for improvement for the CA API Developer Portal. It is still not on par with what the competencies are."
"On the monitoring side, we need a better way to monitor it. CA has not given a clear understanding of what external tools we can use to do this."
"If they had different levels of support available then it would be easier to justify the costs."
"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 the number of instances increases, its complexity of installation increases if you do not use the OVA."
"It would be nice if we could create APIs directly from Swagger files. We're doing that ourselves with a middle layer. But if you could integrate with open API Swagger specs, and then just create a Swagger and upload it to the gateway and it would create all my API template policy, and would apply the OAuth restrictions, the types of security restrictions I have on there, that would be pretty cool."
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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