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.
"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 initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"This solution is useful for making new APIs."
"All information and data needs to be sanitized before it enters a private domain and we use this solution to do this."
"t is easy for integrations if it is deployed in AWS Services."
"Integrating API Gateway with other AWS services was easy. It worked out of the box, so it worked perfectly."
"It is very helpful, with our API-based applications."
"It's very well integrated with the Azure environment."
"Most of the features are valuable to me."
"The Application Gateway we have found to be the most useful in Microsoft Azure API Management. We have integrated the Microsoft Azure API Management with Application Gateway. Application Gateway is a type of load balancer that we are using for the high availability of our API calls."
"Everything is already available and ready to operate without a lot of preparation work."
"Easy to integrate API management platform. It is a stable and scalable solution."
"I like the stability and the ease of use."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure API Management is monitoring. When compared with Apigee, I prefer Microsoft Azure API Management."
"We use Microsoft due to the stability of the company."
"There should be more videos and documentation about the new features that are released every month."
"Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function."
"Currently, I'm not facing any issues with Amazon API Gateway, which satisfies my requirements. I'm pretty happy with what Amazon API Gateway offers, but as its pricing is on the higher side, that's one area for improvement in the solution. What I'd like to see in the next release of Amazon API Gateway is an improvement in the status checks you get from the monitoring feature of the solution. Currently, you get the number of requests received, the number of reports, etc., but if there are more details than what's given by Amazon API Gateway, that will improve the solution."
"It's hard to configure. There's a lot of options but it's very hard, it's very confusing."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"Amazon API Gateway is not as complete as Apigee and needs to be improved by adding more features to become a more robust application."
"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 user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"API Management's price could be lower."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is lagging behind Apigee and should also have a better CICD process."
"Support for GraphQL could be better."
"One of the most important improvements for us would be if it supported the HTTP/3 version and new protocol over a quick connection."
"They need to work on the third party integrations."
"What would make Microsoft Azure API Management better are more APIs. They keep updating their APIs, but it would be better if the solution had more APIs for the services and more integration with other platforms."
"Maybe the customization could be a bit better."
"The documentation could be improved for the customer."
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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 67 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, Kong Gateway Enterprise and Layer7 API Management, 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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