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."The product is stable."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"It is a stable solution."
"It is easy to set up. It is also quick to deploy."
"It's flexible. It was valuable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them."
"The solution is a managed service and requires minimal configuration, which makes it easy to launch an API."
"The solution has numerous configuration options to increase security in communication."
"The security checking authentication is our primary use case for this solution."
"You can create little, custom Java assertions that you can insert to do your business logic, which might not be covered by the commercial product out-of-the-box."
"It's a comprehensive tool that allows us to perform all the necessary tasks in one place."
"We are able to go to market very quickly and deploy our functionalities very quickly."
"Simple to use and easy to develop APIs."
"It can be scaled as we need. And it can be used in different regions. We have different data centers in the U.S. and Beijing. We use it on-premise, on-cloud, and it can be hosted and used at any place and scaled across the regions."
"Some of the performance matrix that API Gateway gives off, we monitor them via SNMP traps, and then we tie them into our monitoring system. You can actually monitor some of the latencies and some of the performance aspects of both API Gateways, as well back end services. So having that line of sight surely helps in terms DevOps."
"Amazon API Gateway needs to focus on minimizing latency."
"The tool's UI requires time to understand."
"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."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"They could include more support tools in the product."
"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."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"What is really important is that they offer the solution as a service, on a subscription or monthly basis, which will make it more attractive. That is where the market is headed. There are competitors within the industry that are doing that currently. I would encourage CA to do that."
"Some problems with response time."
"There could be more integration options included in the product."
"Needs to work better with DB2 UDB."
"The product's initial setup phase is not very straightforward, making it an area where improvements are required."
"CA double up portal is a pain. It is something that we are struggling with right now."
"The portal is not the most intuitive and the way things are displayed makes it difficult to find the information we need."
"There are old algorithms that the tool does not support - and it shouldn't, in my opinion. But sometimes customers need old algorithms, from old use cases and old applications, migrated to the platform. At those times, there are hiccups that happen."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 109 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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