Amazon API Gateway vs TIBCO Cloud Mashery

Amazon API Gateway

Amazon API Gateway is a very powerful tool, particularly for small engineering teams. It is ideal for rapidly developing microservices when used in conjunction with the Serverless framework and AWS Lambda. It is also great when used as a conventional API gateway that provides authentication and routing over microservices. It would not be useful for exposing a monolithic application.

Read full review

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Research Company, 11-50 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

TIBCO Cloud Mashery

Mashery is great when it comes to deployment to your own datacenter and when it comes to managing third party API's like Salesforce using Mashery Cloud version. I would be a little bit more careful when deploying it on Kubernetes as it was not designed for it. New version 5 is re-architected to run more on natively on Kubernetes, but we have not tested it yet.

Read full review

Oldrich Novak

Director Platform Engineering at Adidas

adidasSporting Goods, 10,001+ employees

View all 10 answers on this topic

Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon API Gateway

8.2

TIBCO Cloud Mashery

6.8

API access control

9.0

8.0

Rate limits and usage policies

9.0

8.4

API usage data

9.0

6.3

API versioning

7.0

7.6

API monitoring and logging

7.0

6.1

API user onboarding

—

7.3

Usage billing and payments

—

4.0

Pros

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.

Read full review

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Research Company, 11-50 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

The platform is solid. The product's uptime is excellent and Mashery has not struggled to handle the volume of requests our clients have thrown at it.
Configuration is straightforward and intuitive. It's easy to create a new endpoint, a new package, a new API Key, etc.
Mashery is good at communicating with us when new features, or enhancements to existing features, are rolled out.

Read full review

Justin Peterson

Senior Development Manager

STATS, LLCSports, 501-1000 employees

View all 10 answers on this topic

Cons

API Gateway introduces some concepts, such as Stages and Integration Requests, that are foreign to most developers. The documentation hints in the Console help, but sometimes these concepts are not transferred to frameworks like Serverless.
Systems that use API Gateway may behave differently in end-to-end tests in local or CI environments.
Navigating the Console can be confusing.
It could be easier to codify API Gateway configurations.

Read full review

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Research Company, 11-50 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

Documentation.
Flexibility to modify the user interface.
More robust statistics without buying Spotfire as the software solution.

Read full review

Manny Rechani

Program Manager (Consultant) - Application Programming Interface (API)

IEEEPublishing, 1001-5000 employees

View all 10 answers on this topic

Alternatives Considered

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 to find developers with Nginx experience.

Read full review

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Research Company, 11-50 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

Mashery was already installed when I took over the project. I have not worked extensively with other platforms.

Read full review

Manny Rechani

Program Manager (Consultant) - Application Programming Interface (API)

IEEEPublishing, 1001-5000 employees

View all 10 answers on this topic

Return on Investment

API Gateway has positively impacted our business by increasing the stability of our services. It is easy to implement rate limiting and horizontal scaling with API Gateway; this helps us to deliver highly-available services.
API Gateway has increased our developer's productivity because they can delegate the management of web services to AWS. They can focus on features instead of Nginx configurations.
API Gateway makes access control easy, which makes securing our services easier.

Read full review

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Research Company, 11-50 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

Allowed us to quickly give access to internal and external clients.
We've had several business-impacting outages due to Mashery and would like to see that improve.

Read full review

Ali Dalloul

Director of Software Development

ManheimTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees

View all 10 answers on this topic

Pricing Details

Amazon API Gateway

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Additional Pricing Details

—

More Information

Amazon API Gateway More Information

TIBCO Cloud Mashery

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Additional Pricing Details

—

More Information

TIBCO Cloud Mashery More Information

Pricing Info

Rating Summary

Amazon API Gateway vs TIBCO Cloud Mashery