We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and WSO2 API Manager based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon API Gateway finishes slightly ahead in this comparison. Amazon is very flexible and offers very good integrations, especially within the Amazon ecosystem. Many WSO2 API Manager users feel the solution has some stability and performance issues, making it less desirable.
"The most valuable feature in Amazon API Gateway is the itinerary release."
"Amazon stack is easy to use in combination with other Amazon services, so it was a logical continuity."
"In terms of scalability, I haven't encountered any issues with API Gateway. We've significantly increased our traffic from hitting it once or twice a minute to now hitting it ten to fifteen times within a minute. In an hour, we're receiving hundreds of hits. So, it's performing excellently."
"The product is really good when it comes to API lifecycle management, and it is not just something that includes the balancing part or the security aspect but also the routing and the fallback mechanism."
"The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"Integrating API Gateway with other AWS services was easy. It worked out of the box, so it worked perfectly."
"The solution is a managed service and requires minimal configuration, which makes it easy to launch an API."
"It is a stable solution."
"Based on the information I have, the solution's most valuable feature is its capability of implementing custom solutions."
"The solution is open source and easy to configure."
"The product is easy to use."
"The scalability is fine for our purposes."
"It is possible to scale up and scale down with the solution...I can say that I have not seen any issues related to scalability."
"As far as I am aware this solution is the first API Publisher that allows you to create and publish API and to manage the API lifecycle."
"The most interesting feature is its Mac-based function."
"API management lifecycle is the most valuable."
"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."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"Their support services come at a considerable cost, leaving room for improvement."
"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."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"From a use cases perspective, you need to have an internal and external gateway. AWS can only handle external traffic so has to be used together with another solution."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"The course management needs improvement. It's always an issue to set up the course management, especially when you use data form."
"Based on our recent large scaling project, the latency needs to be improved."
"The professional support and licensing aspects of WSO have been a challenge."
"From a product perspective, the first thing is that although the documentation provided by WSO2 is good, it could be much better. We're in the middle of a complex migration, moving away from VMs to Kubernetes with the latest version of WSO2 and good documentation is essential to us right now."
"For fresh graduates and engineers, the setup process can be very difficult."
"The technical support must be improved."
"The interface needs to be modernized and made more user friendly so the product continues to have a growing community of users."
"From what I have experienced from the versions I have tried, they could improve on the multi-tenant environments to allow some kind of SSO single sign-on between tenant."
"The solution could be more user friendly for engineers."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while WSO2 API Manager is ranked 8th in API Management with 33 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while WSO2 API Manager 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 WSO2 API Manager writes "Reliable with good capabilities and good support". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas WSO2 API Manager is most compared with Apigee, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Microsoft Azure API Management, Apache APISIX and 3scale API Management. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. WSO2 API Manager report.
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