We performed a comparison between Amazon API Gateway and Microsoft Azure API Management based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure is highly regarded for its stability, integration capabilities, and user-friendliness, whereas Amazon is appreciated for its flexibility and ease of use. Azure users express a desire for lower licensing fees, improved integration, and enhanced performance, while Amazon users seek better monitoring and security features. Azure's pricing is considered reasonable but could be more cost-effective, while Amazon's pricing is generally acceptable. The quality of Azure's technical support varies, while Amazon's support is generally satisfactory.
"The technical support is very strong. We've had issues with the solution and configuration and we got very good support."
"It's easy to integrate and provide support for existing AWS services if I use the AWS API gateway."
"In terms of most valuable features, it would say that it is really easy to start working with it."
"The most valuable feature in Amazon API Gateway is the itinerary release."
"It allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them."
"All information and data needs to be sanitized before it enters a private domain and we use this solution to do this."
"Its security feature is the most valuable because it is mainly a security solution. It has easy authentication and authorization, and its integration is also useful."
"The most valuable feature is it has lots of integration."
"The API management and the hosting of the API platform are great."
"It's a very robust tool. So you see that there is a developer portal which can be used by developer or the vendors as well. And other external partners to create keys and manage their own APIs. The other thing is that they have a lot of policies there are too many options within API. So I do the difficult to tell one, but probably I would say, like, proxy sorry. The policies is one of the thing wherein you can just configure the policies and modify the behavior of the APIs."
"I like the stability and the ease of use."
"The most valuable features are the API and integrations."
"Allows the possibility of VPN technology to connect your gateway directly with on-prem services"
"Ease of integration into the entire Microsoft environment."
"I like API Management's sandbox feature. It's an environment where you can test out the API before putting it into production and connecting it to a live environment."
"Without a doubt, it has a very robust, strong marketplace where we can directly integrate with existing APIs and begin working on those."
"Amazon API Gateway needs to focus on minimizing latency."
"Its support for SAM integration could be made more accessible."
"I believe that there could be more features associated with analytics since it is an area where the product lacks."
"Amazon API Gateway is not as complete as Apigee and needs to be improved by adding more features to become a more robust application."
"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."
"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."
"API Gateway lacks some governance features that MuleSoft offers, and there are additional features that could make it even better."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"The developer console for external users could be improved, especially in the testing site."
"From my understanding, there are some constraints around governance and service-to-service intercommunication managing priorities and our own governance."
"Microsoft Azure API Management could improve the documentation. The documentation feels like marketing information and not sufficient technical information. Your easiest option is to purchase services from a Microsoft partner and this is their marketing."
"They should improve the inbuilt policies that they have and that should properly create a deployment architecture as well."
"The solution's integration suite needs improvement."
"The licensing fees should be cheaper."
"Sometimes when immediate support is required, it isn't available."
"API Management's price could be lower."
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Amazon API Gateway is ranked 3rd in API Management with 37 reviews while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. Amazon API Gateway is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure API Management 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 Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Amazon API Gateway is most compared with MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Apigee, WSO2 API Manager, Layer7 API Management and Kong Gateway Enterprise, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise, IBM API Connect and WSO2 API Manager. See our Amazon API Gateway vs. Microsoft Azure API Management report.
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