We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Kong Gateway Enterprise 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."API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is solid, robust, and scalable."
"Amazon API Gateway can integrate with ECS and Lambda."
"It is very helpful, with our API-based applications."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent."
"It is easy to set up. It is also quick to deploy."
"The solution provides good performance."
"The features I like include ease of operation and implementation in a cloud environment, the dashboarding features for API statistics, and the user-friendly developer portal."
"In our buying companies' perspective, it was easier to use compared to other platforms. The markets were pretty familiar with the solutions."
"The most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise is its capability to integrate with various security tools."
"Kong enterprise has significantly enhanced our ability to manage and secure our Microservices. Its most valuable feature is monitoring."
"Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it seamlessly supports a vast number of tools."
"The tool's feature that I find most beneficial is rate limiting. In our usage, especially in the financial sector, we prioritize limiting API usage. This is crucial because we provide APIs to other companies and must ensure they adhere to their allocated usage limits. Without rate limiting, there's a risk of excessive usage, which could result in significant costs."
"Amazon API Gateway is not as complete as Apigee and needs to be improved by adding more features to become a more robust application."
"There are certain restrictions that cannot be implemented without web access."
"Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"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."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"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."
"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."
"The solution should include policy features that are available in other solutions like MuleSoft API manager but missing in Kong Enterprise."
"There should be an easier way to integrate with other solutions, even though it's the same API solution layer. Comparability will be a good improvement."
"The tool needs improvement in UX."
"The OS upgrades are not as frequent as they should be and they are bulky."
"Kong Enterprise needs to improve its pricing, which starts at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Pricing should be based on API usage rather than monthly. It should improve its documentation as well."
"We would like to see an automatic data API when we have a table in the database."
"Because it is open-source, it should be less expensive than others."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Kong Gateway Enterprise is ranked 6th in API Management with 19 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Kong Gateway Enterprise 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 Kong Gateway Enterprise writes "Provides role-based access control and can be easily customized with Lua script". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and IBM API Connect, whereas Kong Gateway Enterprise is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, WSO2 API Manager, Apigee, Apache APISIX and 3scale API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Kong Gateway Enterprise report.
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