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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

    Blackbird API Development

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AAmbassador offers a suite of products designed to deliver API developer experiences that fuel innovation. Blackbird API Development Platform enables developers to spec, mock, write boilerplate code, and debug APIs faster.

    $10

    per month (for a single user and 5 concurrent instances)

    Pricing
    Amazon API GatewayBlackbird API Development
    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 GatewayBlackbird API Development
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon API GatewayBlackbird API Development
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    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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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon API GatewayBlackbird API Development
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Amazon API Gateway and Blackbird API Development
    Feature
    Amazon API Gateway
    9.1
    14 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Blackbird API Development
    -
    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
    Best Alternatives
    Amazon API GatewayBlackbird API Development
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    OCI API Management
    Score7.9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Amazon API GatewayBlackbird API Development
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon API GatewayBlackbird API Development
    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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    Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
    Ambassador is really well suited for scenarios were you need to give power and freedom to your developers so they can take advantage of the self-service approach. One of the few scenarios I can not recommend using Ambassador is in the case you are planning to not using Kubernetes as it is a solution designed to work specifically on that platform
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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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    Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
    • Simple syntax
    • Easy to understand
    • Easy to install
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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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    Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
    • Documentation is not updated
    • Implementing external authentication doesn't always work as described in the documentation
    • The Administration console is limited
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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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    Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
    It's great! it's amazingly simple to use and the best part is the self-service approach. I also like how easy it is to add a new route to a endpoint with the mappings definition.
    Incentivized
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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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    Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
    Overall the support has been great and quick to answer the requests I've submitted in the past. I was originally using the community/open source version and I can't say it was the best experience I had, it wasn't terrible but it wasn't great. I believe the biggest issue was that they refer to the documentation a lot but the documentation isn't updated regularly so I feel it's lagging behind the most recent versions.
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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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    Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
    They both offer about the same in terms of end goal and purpose of use and scenarios. However, Ambassador does way better in terms of simplifying the syntax and makes offer a little bit more of control by adding the concepts of hosts, mappings while staying away from a hard to read single file configuration.
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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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    Datawire, Inc., dba Ambassador
    • Reduced downtime by redirecting traffic between DC.
    • Reduced engineering time, don't have to dedicate 1 person to manage it.
    • Increased training costs in the short term.
    Incentivized
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