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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon API Gateway

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AAWS offers the Amazon API Gateway supports the creation and publication of an API for web applications, as well as its monitoring and maintenance. The Amazon API Gateway is able to support thousands of API calls concurrently and provides traffic management, as well as monitoring and access control.

    $0.90

    Per Million

    Apache Tomcat

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AApache Tomcat (developed by The Apache Software Foundation) is an open-source Java web application server and servlet container released under the Apache License version 2.0. Tomcat provides an execution environment and web server for hosting Java-based web applications, implementing core Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE) web specifications including Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Pages (JSP), Jakarta Expression Language (EL), Jakarta WebSocket, Jakarta Annotations, and Jakarta Authentication.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon API GatewayApache Tomcat
    Editions & Modules
    Past 300 Million
    $0.90
    Per Million
    First 300 Million
    $1.00
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon API GatewayApache Tomcat
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon API GatewayApache Tomcat
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    Features
    Amazon API GatewayApache Tomcat
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Amazon API Gateway and Apache Tomcat
    Feature
    Amazon API Gateway
    9.1
    14 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Apache Tomcat
    -
    Ratings
    API access control9.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies10.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    API usage data8.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    API user onboarding8.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    API versioning9.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments10.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging10.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of Amazon API Gateway and Apache Tomcat
    Feature
    Amazon API Gateway
    -
    Ratings
    Apache Tomcat
    9.2
    24 Ratings
    15% above category average
    IDE support00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings9.024 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings8.224 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings8.124 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings10.024 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings10.024 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Amazon API GatewayApache Tomcat
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    OCI API Management
    Score8 out of 10
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon API GatewayApache Tomcat
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon API GatewayApache Tomcat
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    Experienced a lack of available programming languages while working on a minor project. I had to halt the project and wait for it to be added later. It took ages and had a hit on our productivity. It has a centralized management system which helps and an easy interface which helps to manage multiple tasks in case of large-scale operations and projects.
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    Apache
    Excellent value for companies wishing to host Java applications in the cloud. Utilizing hosting tools such as load balancers and network and application firewalls, Tomcat can be part of a powerful system to host web applications to thousands of users. There has been consistency in the development and support of Tomcat since its initial release in the late '90s and the best commonalities have been carried forward. If you host Java web applications, Tomcat is as good as any for an application server.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • API Gateway integrates well with AWS Lambda. This allows us to build a web server in the language and framework of our choice, deploy it as a Lambda function, and expose it through API Gateway.
    • API Gateway manages API keys. Building rate limiting and request quota features are not trivial (or interesting).
    • API Gateway's pricing can be very attractive for services that are accessed infrequently.
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    Apache
    • Fast to start up, which is useful when we need to just check that our changes are working correctly.
    • Free, which allows us to not be involved with the finance/legal team about using it.
    • Bundled with Spring Boot, which makes it even more convenient for our testing.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Client certificates are troublesome when trying to attach them to API GW stages.
    • Debugging across several services can be difficult when API GW is integrated with Route 53 and another service like Lambda or EC2/ELB.
    • Creating internal/private APIs, particularly with custom domains, can be unintuitive.
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    Apache
    • Using tomcat manager to troubleshoot is not very informative. Error messages are vague, you have to dig into log files for more information about the problems.
    • Is great for simple web applications, but may not work for heavy development which may require a full J2EE stack, might like JBoss better.
    • Security in tomcat is not straightforward, as I discovered that you have to understand how to set up realms in tomcat in order to hash passwords, which I was not overly familiar with, which is a big deal when setting up users in the tomcat-users.xml file.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Apache
    We have a huge knowledge of the product within our company and we're satisfied with the performance.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    It is a great product very reliable and stable for connecting various aws services like we connected with lambda function and it is working very well, never faced any issue after the setup. It also saves out lots of money as well as time after we implemented the automatic ec2 server recovery system
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    Apache
    Tomcat has a very rich API set which allows us to implement our automation script to trigger the deployment, configure, stop and start Tomcat from the command line. In our projects, we embedded Tomcat in our Eclipse in all of the developer's machines so they could quickly verify their code with little effort, Azure Webapp has strong support for Tomcat so we could move our application to Azure cloud very easy. One drawback is Tomcat UI quite poorly features but we almost do not use it.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Apache
    Tomcat doesn't have a built-in watchdog that ensures restart upon failure, so you have to provide it externally. A very good solution is java service wrapper. The community edition is able to restart Tomcat upon out of memories exceptions.
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Apache
    Tomcat support to customize memory used and allow us to define the Connection pool and thread pool to increase system performance and availability, Tomcat server itself consume very little memory and almost no footprint. We use Tomcat in our production environment which has up to thousands of concurrent users and it is stable and provides a quick response.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    We always had a great experience with the AWS support team. They were always on time and very dependable. It was a good partnership while we worked to resolve our issues.
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    Apache
    Well, in actuality, I have never needed support for Apache Tomcat since it is configured and ready-to-go with no configuration needed on my end.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    When we tested Azure API Management at the time, it had serious connectivity issues, it was very unstable, and it needed to do a lot using the command line. Comparing with the AWS solution, which was more mature, and the fact that we have services in use on AWS, we ended up choosing to continue using AWS products. This so as not to run the risk of increasing latency in accesses, and of some functionality not working, due to being developed yet.
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    Apache
    Eclipse Jetty is the best alternative for Apache Tomcat because which is also an open-source and lightweight servlet container like Tomcat. A major advantage of this over Tomcat is that Jetty server can easily be embedded with the source code of web applications. Since it requires less memory to operate, you may realize that it is very efficient.
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    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Apache
    It's very easy to add instances to an existing deployment and, using apache with mod proxy balancer, to scale up the serving farm
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • ROI is negative, you need either to hire them to work with you or spend days/weeks to figure out issues.
    • For some of the projects in the end it is not worth it, it is just a "buzz" to use serverless but not practical.
    • Service is easy to set up authorization and it is easy to manage.
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    Apache
    • Tomcat is cheap and very quick to deploy, so it has benefited much when situation needs applications to be deployed quickly without wasting time on licensing and installations.
    • Plenty of documentation available so no vendor training is required. Support contract is not needed as well.
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