Amazon API Gateway vs. Azure Logic Apps vs. NGINX

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon API Gateway
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
AWS 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 Logic Apps
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft offers the Azure Logic Apps as a cloud-based integration service, supporting data and application integration.
$0
per execution
NGINX
Score 9.1 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
NGINX, a business unit of F5 Networks, powers over 65% of the world's busiest websites and web applications. NGINX started out as an open source web server and reverse proxy, built to be faster and more efficient than Apache. Over the years, NGINX has built a suite of infrastructure software products o tackle some of the biggest challenges in managing high-transaction applications. NGINX offers a suite of products to form the core of what organizations need to create…N/A
Pricing
Amazon API GatewayAzure Logic AppsNGINX
Editions & Modules
Past 300 Million
$0.90
Per Million
First 300 Million
$1.00
Per Million
Actions
$0.000025
per execution
Standard Connector
$0.000025
per execution
Enterprise Connector
$0.001
per execution
Integration Account - Basic
$0.42
per hour
Integration Account - Standard
$1.37
per hour
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon API GatewayAzure Logic AppsNGINX
Free Trial
NoYesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Amazon API GatewayAzure Logic AppsNGINX
Considered Multiple Products
Amazon API Gateway
Chose Amazon API Gateway
Nginx is a powerful tool but configuring, running and maintaining but Nginx will never be a competitive advantage for our business. API Gateway is powerful because it is managed and does what we need out-of-the-box. Nginx is used more widely in the community; it may be easier …
Azure Logic Apps
Chose Azure Logic Apps
Honestly, both are robust applications that have helped our business. Amazon had more help training and help resources and allowed us to hit the ground running a little easier. However, it seems like Azure is a more complete option that has more overall resources that our …
NGINX

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Features
Amazon API GatewayAzure Logic AppsNGINX
API Management
Comparison of API Management features of Product A and Product B
Amazon API Gateway
9.1
14 Ratings
8% above category average
Azure Logic Apps
-
Ratings
NGINX
-
Ratings
API access control9.013 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Rate limits and usage policies10.013 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
API usage data8.013 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
API user onboarding8.013 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
API versioning9.013 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Usage billing and payments10.012 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
API monitoring and logging10.014 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Data Integration
Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of Product A and Product B
Amazon API Gateway
-
Ratings
Azure Logic Apps
8.5
16 Ratings
6% above category average
NGINX
-
Ratings
Pre-built connectors00 Ratings9.416 Ratings00 Ratings
Connector modification00 Ratings9.015 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for real-time and batch integration00 Ratings8.214 Ratings00 Ratings
Data quality services00 Ratings8.314 Ratings00 Ratings
Data security features00 Ratings7.815 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring console00 Ratings8.314 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
Amazon API Gateway
-
Ratings
Azure Logic Apps
-
Ratings
NGINX
8.7
32 Ratings
9% above category average
IDE support00 Ratings00 Ratings7.617 Ratings
Security management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.627 Ratings
Administration and management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.827 Ratings
Application server performance00 Ratings00 Ratings9.327 Ratings
Installation00 Ratings00 Ratings8.929 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings00 Ratings9.025 Ratings
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
NGINX
NGINX
Score 9.1 out of 10
IBM App Connect
IBM App Connect
Score 9.2 out of 10
Apache Tomcat
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Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises
NGINX
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Score 9.1 out of 10
IBM App Connect
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 8.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon API GatewayAzure Logic AppsNGINX
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(14 ratings)
8.8
(16 ratings)
8.9
(50 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
8.3
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
8.1
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon API GatewayAzure Logic AppsNGINX
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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Microsoft
Microsoft Azure Logic Apps was a perfect solution for us to integrate the apps and products we used in our business to create automated workflows which were also complex and very advanced. This was a very new feature for us, and also it reduced our software costs massively and also saved us a lot of time. With the crisis, we were in back then Azure turned out to be the best cost-friendly solution because we only had to pay for what we used!
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F5
Nginx is well-suited for any web server scenarios, such as web applications, backend or reverse proxy for both application and HTTP requests, and distribution. It is less appropriate for Windows-based applications that run directly on a Windows Server host. In any case, it is very easy to manage, through separate conf files for each application or site you want to host with it.
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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
  • Connecting to different services using OOB connectors
  • Support for HTTP connectors which enables user to leverage RestAPIs
  • Readability, i.e., it looks just like a Visio diagram. Even managers or HRs can have a look and get to know what's happening
  • It's a Programmer's Lego. It's fun connecting them at the same time getting the work done
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F5
  • Very low memory usage. Can handle many more connections than alternatives (like Apache HTTPD) due to low overhead. (event-based architecture).
  • Great at serving static content.
  • Scales very well. Easy to host multiple Nginx servers to promote high availability.
  • Open-Source (no cost)!
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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
  • It falls short of alerting capabilities.
  • Microsoft Azure should be unclouded with its pricing. We don't always know how much an inclusion will affect the monthly price. So we have to speculate where we are with the price and if we can afford to include another asset.
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F5
  • Customer support can be strangely condescending, perhaps it's a language issue?
  • I find it a little weird how the release versions used for Nginx+ aren't the same as for open source version. It can be very confusing to determine the cross-compatibility of modules, etc., because of this.
  • It seems like some (most?) modules on their own site are ancient and no longer supported, so their documentation in this area needs work.
  • It's difficult to navigate between nginx.com commercial site and customer support. They need to be integrated together.
  • I'd love to see more work done on nginx+ monitoring without requiring logging every request. I understand that many statistics can only be derived from logs, but plenty should work without that. Logging is not an option in many environments.
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
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Microsoft
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F5
Great value for the product
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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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Microsoft
I found them easy to use and adapt to different scenarios, from Azure management to link processes between REST APIs. Together with Function Apps, they're probably the most useful resource type for Azure. Today, I use them in production, and that's a key component: stable, secure, easy to manage, and maintain.
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F5
This tool is really easy to use and configure. Consumes very less system resources. It is highly modular and configurable. You can easily use it with other tools like certbot for SSLs. You can configure basic security with configuration and headers
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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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Microsoft
Azure Logic Apps are backed by Azure and Microsoft. There is a wealth of information on the internet about both of these platforms. In addition to this Microsoft has a huge bush to using this platform and have offered many solutions and support options to the user. The only drawback is that it is a fairly new platform so the 3rd party information tends to be lacking.
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F5
Community support is great, and they've also had a presence at conferences. Overall, there is no shortage of documentation and community support. We're currently using it to serve up some WordPress sites, and configuring NGINX for this purpose is well documented.
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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
This is very dependent on the line of work you are in and the unique company requirements, as is the case with everything. We utilize Azure Logic Apps for all of our computing solutions within our domain, and it has always worked flawlessly. One of the simplest clouds to set up and use is by far the most popular.
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F5
I have found that [NGINX] seems to perform better throughout the years with less issues although I've used Apache more. I would definitely recommend [NGINX] for any high volume site and I've seen this to usually be the case from most provided web hosts who will pick [NGINX] over alternatives
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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
  • Moving to Serverless Computing obviously makes the organization get rid of dependent Infra.
  • ROI can be seen immediately as the required infra can be decommissioned after a successful quarter run.
  • Being deployed as a single entity or single app on Azure Logic Apps, Organizations need to be more careful with controls applied to meet compliance and security posture.
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F5
  • By using Nginx, we can host multiple web services on a single server, keeping our infrastructure costs lower.
  • Nginx maintains our HTTPS connections, allowing us to keep our promise to our customers that their data is safe in transit.
  • Due to Nginx's extremely low failure rate, our web addresses always return something meaningful, even when individual services go down. In sense, this means we are "always online" and allows us to maintain brand and support our customers even in the face of catastrophe.
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ScreenShots

NGINX Screenshots

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