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."It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is a managed service and requires minimal configuration, which makes it easy to launch an API."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway."
"This solution is useful for making new APIs."
"The most valuable feature is it has lots of integration."
"The route limiting feature is very valuable."
"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."
"The tool's scalability is good...The solution's technical support is good."
"Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."
"The most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise is its capability to integrate with various security tools."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it seamlessly supports a vast number of tools."
"The most valuable features of Kong Enterprise are the out-of-the-box open source easy functionality."
"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."
"It's hard to configure. There's a lot of options but it's very hard, it's very confusing."
"The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"They could include more support tools in the product."
"The pricing could be improved. In cases where customers require real-time sync or real-time calling groups with IoT, the volume of data and time lag become a concern."
"Amazon API Gateway needs to focus on minimizing latency."
"Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function."
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"When working with XML payloads, there can be issues due to the lack of a seamless connection between API Gateway and Lambda functions."
"The technical support team's response time needs to be improved."
"The tool needs improvement in UX."
"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."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution should include policy features that are available in other solutions like MuleSoft API manager but missing in Kong Enterprise."
"Kong Enterprise can improve the customization to be able to do the integration properly."
"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."
"The ease of billing is lost when Kong is not available directly on the Azure marketplace. This is one area where they can improve."
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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