We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and IBM DataPower Gateway 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."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."
"It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is it has lots of integration."
"It's flexible. It was valuable."
"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."
"Amazon API Gateway facilitates our serverless architecture, particularly with Lambda, by allowing us to perform various tasks. For instance, Lambda functions authorize API calls, execute multiple workloads, and integrate with other services like Azure and Kubernetes. Additionally, we leverage Lambda functions behind the Amazon API Gateway to query databases, process data, and interact with different systems."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It's high-speed and it can be remotely administered via an API."
"What I like most is the stability."
"It is very easy to set up and configure, even for users with no prior experience."
"The most valuable feature is the security appliance, it's very secure."
"It can look for the various security threats, productions, payload scanning, and perform routing based on the content type."
"The solution is stable."
"The product is stable...The product is scalable."
"I believe better governance and monitoring features would be beneficial."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"The solution could improve signature validation."
"The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"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."
"The integration could be improved."
"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."
"An area for improvement in IBM DataPower Gateway is its price point because it's a relatively expensive product. Sometimes, when the customer use case is just a very small subset of what's being offered in IBM DataPower Gateway, then the product can be expensive, making my company lose some of the opportunities because of the expensive pricing. A lower price point for IBM DataPower Gateway, even if that results in a less feature-rich version, would be appreciated. In terms of additional features that I'd like to see in the next release of IBM DataPower Gateway, nothing specific comes to mind because IBM constantly improves its standards and provides quarterly updates to the product, so it's quite fine."
"We are always looking for more features wherein it could be easily integrated with cloud applications. We are looking for either a cloud solution or a cloud integration option."
"In the next release, I would like to see the product price reduced. It should be cheaper."
"The product's cost for data appliances or hardware is quite high. It needs improvement."
"The IBM community does not have much engagement from the IT community in Saudi Arabia and developers for this solution are difficult to find."
"The solution requires a lot of training manuals in order to get to know it better and to be able to use it effectively."
"It is a costly product."
"Its support services could be better."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 7th in API Management with 27 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while IBM DataPower Gateway 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 IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Security features meets compliance needs and offers MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) that simplifies integration efforts ". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager and Tyk, whereas IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and Layer7 API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. IBM DataPower Gateway report.
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