We performed a comparison between Akana API Management and Amazon API Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in API Management."The tool's authentication mechanism is easy to implement. We had to define a few parameters."
"It allowed us to publish and replace pre-essential transactions in one place, with a uniformity in terms of control and policies."
"Good interface, intuitive solution."
"The most valuable feature is it has lots of integration."
"What I like best about Amazon API Gateway is that it's simple to use, easy to set up, and you can quickly get it up and running. It's a very user-friendly solution. I also didn't experience any issues in terms of Amazon API Gateway interface, integration, or monitoring. The solution runs smoothly."
"Amazon API Gateway can integrate with ECS and Lambda."
"In terms of most valuable features, it would say that it is really easy to start working with it."
"This solution is useful for making new APIs."
"It provides the flexibility to configure, switch, and manage configurations through cloud permissions or performance settings."
"The solution is solid, robust, and scalable."
"The best thing about Amazon API Gateway is that it can authenticate and authorize requests without going to our back end."
"Lacks an integrated billing feature."
"The product has new features that we are going to implement in the next few months, such as API management and analytic reporting."
"Akana API Management needs to improve its documentation."
"We faced a few issues with the documentation."
"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."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"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."
"When working with XML payloads, there can be issues due to the lack of a seamless connection between API Gateway and Lambda functions."
"I believe that there could be more features associated with analytics since it is an area where the product lacks."
"The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"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."
Akana API Management is ranked 28th in API Management with 3 reviews while Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews. Akana API Management is rated 8.4, while Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akana API Management writes "Authentication mechanism is easy to implement but improvement is needed in documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon API Gateway writes "Easy initial setup and highly stable solution". Akana API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect, whereas Amazon API Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee and WSO2 API Manager.
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