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."It allows us to expose our APIs and provides tools for managing them."
"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."
"All information and data needs to be sanitized before it enters a private domain and we use this solution to do this."
"It is easy to set up. It is also quick to deploy."
"In terms of most valuable features, it would say that it is really easy to start working with it."
"API Gateway offers a multitude of configuration parameters that enable versatile request filtering and protection against potential attacks."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is a stable solution with an uptime of 99.99 percent."
"The most valuable feature is it has lots of integration."
"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."
"Ease of use."
"We can create multiple orgs and set up policies and management. We can also integrate with an APM solution"
"You can create little, custom Java assertions that you can insert to do your business logic, which might not be covered by the commercial product out-of-the-box."
"The most valuable feature was the gateway because it has a good dashboard which shows all the hits, misses, and issues, how often you are viewing, what was the response time, etc. The gateway was very easy to deploy."
"As an organization grow, you can use CA API Management for authentication purposes through the CA API Gateway. It allows for multiple identity providers with different Active Directories."
"The Portal API helps us with deployments. It also helps to have a catalog of everything. The replication is also a critical feature for us. It helps to have a more robust architecture and makes our systems are highly available."
"The security checking authentication is our primary use case for this solution."
"When it comes to DDoS protection, I would like to see that become available at the API Gateway level."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The user interface, in general, can be better. The user interface for the entire Amazon cloud can be more friendly. There are some scenarios that are not really easy to manage and configure through the user interface."
"It's hard to configure. There's a lot of options but it's very hard, it's very confusing."
"The user interface could be improved, as well as customer support and having a local customer representative in a country."
"I am not completely satisfied with Technical Support."
"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."
"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."
"The only issue we have is that we have to buy an APM license separately for end-to-end monitoring."
"The overall cost of Layer7 API Management is high, they can improve it by making it less expensive."
"What is really important is that they offer the solution as a service, on a subscription or monthly basis, which will make it more attractive. That is where the market is headed. There are competitors within the industry that are doing that currently. I would encourage CA to do that."
"The architecture of the solution does not allow for flexibility in using different components for the gateway architecture."
"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."
"From the last version, they have added more dashboard support, but there is still a lot they need to improve. In terms of monitoring, it's almost all covered. The interface can be improved, though."
"The interface should be improved."
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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