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."The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent."
"The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"The initial setup is pretty easy. Deployment only takes five minutes."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Amazon API Gateway is a very fast solution."
"The solution is solid, robust, and scalable."
"The product is stable."
"The actual management of APIs is fundamental to us, as we're a heavy API user/provider. So, obviously, a centralised management platform is important."
"There are a couple aspects of performance. One is just speed and uptime, and it's stellar in that regard. The other is, how much effort is it to put it in place in the first place, and then how much effort is it to keep it operational. That's where its real strength is. I'm able to do things quickly and easily that I couldn't do before."
"It has its own language, which make it possible to design and implement the complete flow using existing services and databases, and to create and aggregate fine-and coarse-grained APIs."
"It has improved API governance and gives analytics to API performance."
"The initial setup process is easy and flexible."
"The security checking authentication is our primary use case for this solution."
"Compared to other vendors, this product is much faster in coming up with new features, which is good."
"Some of the performance matrix that API Gateway gives off, we monitor them via SNMP traps, and then we tie them into our monitoring system. You can actually monitor some of the latencies and some of the performance aspects of both API Gateways, as well back end services. So having that line of sight surely helps in terms DevOps."
"Amazon API Gateway will wait for only 30 seconds to get a response from other services, such as the Lambda function."
"When working with XML payloads, there can be issues due to the lack of a seamless connection between API Gateway and Lambda functions."
"Its support for SAM integration could be made more accessible."
"Its performance and scalability could be better compared to one of its competitors."
"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."
"The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"They need a multifactor authentication solution for the API layer and the other layers, as well."
"Layer7 API Management could improve by assing more portal-based capabilities."
"There is still room for improvement for the CA API Developer Portal. It is still not on par with what the competencies are."
"The development toolkit used for creating APIs should be more online and user-friendly. Deployment and tracking could also be improved. Tools like Apigee provide a complete online experience along with RESTful APIs, to manage all activities. It is a very nice and user-friendly solution compared to CA."
"As a SaaS product, control over some configuration elements and environments is lost."
"The portal is not the most intuitive and the way things are displayed makes it difficult to find the information we need."
"They need a workflow for the API Developer Portal, where the process only allows requests to go to the correct person."
"The product needs to keep up with newer trends even though customers might not be requesting it yet."
Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Layer7 API Management is ranked 10th in API Management with 110 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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