We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Tyk 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."One of the most valuable aspects of API Gateway is its native integration with AWS services."
"Amazon API Gateway can integrate with ECS and Lambda."
"t is easy for integrations if it is deployed in AWS Services."
"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."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"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."
"You can set up workflows and write limited pieces of logic."
"It is a good product for API management."
"The most valuable feature is the load balancing with the circuit-breaker function."
"The feature I find most valuable is that this solution allows us to manage our security."
"The portal for developers that this solution provides has great functionality."
"The scalability is very good. That was a key factor in the selection, like how it could be pushed to high volume and scalability, which seemed to be very good."
"When working with XML payloads, there can be issues due to the lack of a seamless connection between API Gateway and Lambda functions."
"Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function."
"There should be more videos and documentation about the new features that are released every month."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"Its performance and scalability could be better compared to one of its competitors."
"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."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"Amazon API Gateway needs to focus on minimizing latency."
"We ran it for a while, but then we decided to move away from Tyk, because Tyk's cloud version, the SaaS version, has a significant limitation of limited flexibility, so you can't program very much."
"In terms of our usage, the main area of concern is that they tend to build enhancements slightly ahead of the considerations for what those enhancements and extensions are. So it could be slightly better communication with the customer base that would be my main issue with them."
"It is a young product and does not have the kind of brand recognition that would make it a more popular solution with our clients."
"I would like to see some additional features like having some extensions for .NET core because we use it for our back-end language."
"We would like a better tool for generating documentation for the APIs to be developed."
"Sometimes when new features are released, they are not immediately stable."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Tyk is ranked 17th in API Management with 6 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Tyk is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tyk writes "Simple to install, has many features, but lacks support for multiple programming languages". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Oracle API Platform Cloud Service, whereas Tyk is most compared with Apache APISIX, Traefik Enterprise, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management and Gravitee. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Tyk report.
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