We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and IBM API Connect 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 technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."
"The product is stable."
"The solution is solid, robust, and scalable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is very helpful, with our API-based applications."
"One of the most valuable aspects of API Gateway is its native integration with AWS services."
"All information and data needs to be sanitized before it enters a private domain and we use this solution to do this."
"The solution offers a pretty good SLA."
"The interface is very nice. It makes the solution easy to use and navigate."
"IBM API Connect is a good product, and their technical support is excellent."
"The centralized management: this provides a management module that can deploy and apply security policies to all APIs, including all the gateways that are deployed on-premises and on any cloud because the gateway component can run at a VMware or in a Kubernetes cluster."
"One of the most valuable features is the easy-to-use web interface."
"This product is well integrated with other products. Its ability to interact with IBM Secure Gateway and other integration products is the core feature. Also, the lead time to put it into production is relatively short ."
"The ability for all of our web applications to share standard functions and documents easily is valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the security we get from this solution. I know of a bank that uses it to ensure that everything is secure. The second feature I like is the retail environment, where we actually want to be able to provide as many suppliers and consumers with APIs as possible. If you are well-trained in the writing of RESTful API's, you can actually publish an API in a matter of minutes, test it, and publish it."
"Their support services come at a considerable cost, leaving room for improvement."
"Amazon API Gateway is not as complete as Apigee and needs to be improved by adding more features to become a more robust application."
"Its performance and scalability could be better compared to one of its competitors."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"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."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"The solution could improve security and performance."
"I would like to see automation of the installation. If there could be a single-click function where you could automate everything, that would be helpful."
"There are issues with upgrading in the cloud version. The cloud version is extremely buggy. We prefer to use the on-premise version."
"The design time setup has a lot of customizable fields, but we need certain standard fields to be added, such as what all of the consuming systems are. This needs to be very clearly articulated during the design time."
"It is expensive within this class of products."
"Firstly, the pricing model, when compared to other open sources, is high. Secondly, the availability of resources in the market, specifically the developers available in the market, is not so much."
"Possible improvement is mainly around having more of the cloud oriented architecture bringing stability in adding new capabilities around security."
"The automation and the simplicity could be improved."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while IBM API Connect is ranked 5th in API Management with 73 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while IBM API Connect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM API Connect writes "Good speed and performance, but it's based on a bit dated architecture". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and 3scale API Management, whereas IBM API Connect is most compared with IBM DataPower Gateway, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager and Kong Gateway Enterprise. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. IBM API Connect report.
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