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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon API Gateway

    Score7.2 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

    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is designed to make deploying and managing containerized applications easy. It offers serverless Kubernetes, an integrated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience, and enterprise-grade security and governance. It allows development and operations teams on a single platform to rapidly build, deliver, and scale applications with confidence.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon API GatewayAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Editions & Modules
    Past 300 Million
    $0.90
    Per Million
    First 300 Million
    $1.00
    Per Million
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon API GatewayAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon API GatewayAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon API Gateway
    I feel there is no competition to Amazon API Gateway when it comes to evaluating the cost and ease of use.
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    80%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    78%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    Amazon API GatewayAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Amazon API Gateway and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Feature
    Amazon API Gateway
    9.1
    14 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    -
    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
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Amazon API Gateway and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Feature
    Amazon API Gateway
    -
    Ratings
    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    7.8
    5 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Security and Isolation00 Ratings8.75 Ratings
    Container Orchestration00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Cluster Management00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Storage Management00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
    Discovery Tools00 Ratings7.25 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery00 Ratings8.15 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging00 Ratings7.55 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Amazon API GatewayAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    OCI API Management
    Score7.9 out of 10
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon API GatewayAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon API GatewayAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    AKS works very well for running containerized applications that require high availability and scalability. This includes systems like our HRIS platform and customer-facing web applications. AKS is a good choice when applications are broken into multiple services that need independent scaling and deployment. It provides the flexibility needed to manage these architectures effectively. But for single, low-traffic applications or simple internal tools, AKS can be overkill. For scenarios like that Azure App Service would be better.
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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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    Microsoft
    • AKS makes it easier to replicate data to multiple regions
    • Azure portal make it easier to manage the resources of the organization
    Incentivized
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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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    Microsoft
    • Steep learning curve
    • Expected charges are unclear until you see real production usage
    • Operations teams need to learn an entirely new skill set
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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
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    As already said, the UI/CLI and even terraform are perfectly fine, but certain details could be documented better. For instance, if I want to secure the whole Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with my own managed keys, then it is very complex and hard to get there. Not really a single source that gives you the whole picture. Besides that, it is still good to use, in most cases intuitive but details mentioned as above can be tricky.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft support was really good, whenever we raise any ticket they come back to us within a couple of hours.
    Incentivized
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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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    Microsoft
    Amazon EKS stacked up very well and had better performance in some areas. However, Azure Kubernetes Service was a better fit given our Azure environment.
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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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    Microsoft
    • We had to spend more time on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) than on AWS and GCP to get our kubernetes cluster up and running
    • The resources on nodes need to be left out unused, so effectively it is wasting money there
    • It definitely made us spend more time into maintaining kubernetes
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