We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Microsoft Azure API Management based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure is highly regarded for its stability, integration capabilities, and user-friendliness, whereas Amazon is appreciated for its flexibility and ease of use. Azure users express a desire for lower licensing fees, improved integration, and enhanced performance, while Amazon users seek better monitoring and security features. Azure's pricing is considered reasonable but could be more cost-effective, while Amazon's pricing is generally acceptable. The quality of Azure's technical support varies, while Amazon's support is generally satisfactory.
"The initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes."
"It's flexible. It was valuable."
"All information and data needs to be sanitized before it enters a private domain and we use this solution to do this."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"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 solution is user-friendly."
"Integrating API Gateway with other AWS services was easy. It worked out of the box, so it worked perfectly."
"The solution is a managed service and requires minimal configuration, which makes it easy to launch an API."
"Microsoft Azure API Management has many valuable features. One is the developer portal, that's very useful for teams. The tool also provides layers of security. I also found the caching, automatic documentation, and version management functionalities most valuable."
"Azure API Management is an API gateway that can be used for different purposes, for example, to monetize APIs."
"The ease of setting up a new solution is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up a new solution and to deploy it to production."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure API Management are the easy configuration and deployment with automation."
"The most valuable feature is the developer portal, which has source code examples in various programming languages to help developers learn the API."
"The UI management is very easy to use."
"There were no scalability issues."
"This solution is very flexible, and it's very compatible with the other Azure products."
"A lower price would definitely be an improvement."
"The integration could be improved."
"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."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It's hard to configure. There's a lot of options but it's very hard, it's very confusing."
"Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function."
"They could include more support tools in the product."
"If I take into consideration the past three to four years, during which I used the tool, I would say that some missing and external configurations were not possible in the product, and it was a bit difficult to manage."
"I would like to see better scalability and better performance."
"Performance issues from this platform need to be sorted out."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface and workflow for hosting APIs, especially third-party APIs."
"Microsoft Azure API Management needs to improve stability."
"Microsoft Azure API Management's most valuable features are the microservices we used to use. They were API callers to receive communication with the network and building system, to complete the request. The response would be through the processing system."
"From my understanding, there are some constraints around governance and service-to-service intercommunication managing priorities and our own governance."
"In terms of improvement, it would be helpful if they could develop an on-premises option."
"One of the most important improvements for us would be if it supported the HTTP/3 version and new protocol over a quick connection."
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Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise, IBM API Connect and WSO2 API Manager. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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