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."This solution is useful for making new APIs."
"It is easy to set up. It is also quick to deploy."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"t is easy for integrations if it is deployed in AWS Services."
"The product is stable."
"The solution is solid, robust, and scalable."
"In terms of most valuable features, it would say that it is really easy to start working with it."
"This solution gives you a unified way to have your API accessed."
"Every API that we get from external or from internal goes through this layer first, and it should not be a bottleneck. That was the problem we had before. Now it's no longer a bottleneck. It's more like a throughput, this process is less than 10 milliseconds for any particular API."
"The most valuable feature is that it enables me to present data in the format that the client wants to consume it. That client might be a visualization tool, that client might be a report, that client might be a customer's API requirements."
"I appreciate Layer 7 API management for its comprehensive approach to the entire API lifecycle, including governance, management, and analytics."
"They have got a very compelling platform that enables organizations to easily develop and roll out mobile applications."
"We loved the portal part the most, which had monetization and showed how people were using the stuff. It is a good product as a whole and has a lot of microservices and granular features."
"The out-of-the-box security features are useful. Right now, you can just right-click and drag and drop the assertions with the rate limit. That, as well as the x-amount surge protection, is built in so we can bring that in."
"API Enhanced Portal 4.1 looks very promising. API Gateway policy manager for writing policies is excellent. It is the best in the industry for policy writing."
"Initial setup is straightforward. It is simple and easy to do."
"Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function."
"There are certain restrictions that cannot be implemented without web access."
"I believe better governance and monitoring features would be beneficial."
"We would like to see more UI-based monitoring."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"It would be useful to have a more complete development environment for the developer, with different integrative capabilities to manage all the life cycles for the API. I think the full version formula for that is really useful. They should improve the development environment for easier integration."
"It's hard to configure. There's a lot of options but it's very hard, it's very confusing."
"Amazon API Gateway is not as complete as Apigee and needs to be improved by adding more features to become a more robust application."
"feel like Apigee's API product is more interactive. You can drag and drop with those, but it's a little more difficult in Layer7. It's less user-friendly compared to that Apigee product."
"The UI design could be improved in the next release."
"On the monitoring side, we need a better way to monitor it. CA has not given a clear understanding of what external tools we can use to do this."
"They need a workflow for the API Developer Portal, where the process only allows requests to go to the correct person."
"I feel there is a lot to improve in terms of providing plug-and-play functionalities, as at the moment it requires a lot of coding in their specific language for implementing a medium-complexity use case."
"The Portal lacks maturity. Since the move from Portal 3.x to 4.x, a lot of features were removed. It is slowly coming back. I can see a lot of changes are done in the "background" to decouple components and make it more flexible. Those changes are just not getting to the UI side quick enough."
"The Policy Manager tool that is used to manage the solution is very heavy to use because it is based in Java. Sometimes it takes a long time to load. There could be some improvements to it. If they could make Policy Manager on a web page that would be a good alternative."
"The developer portal needs to fully supported SOAP services (including WSDL publication with security), it would certainly push adoption for us."
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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