Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review It's free! No argument can win a fight with that! And it's the only reason I gave it a 5. If you have no money to spend, and a simple environment you'll have a nice product. But free does come with a price. After 5 years we're still struggling with ports, and analytics (it just won't work without any errors caused by some configuration somewhere). An API Manager should work out of the box. The only configuration expertise that any developer wants to invest in, is the configuration of API's. Not the product itself... Anyone who've seen the training material, just for installing this thing will agree that this is not the way to go. Of all the API Managers out there (we've tried 4), WSO2 is the only one were you need to know how this dragon of a java application works internally. Did I already mention the humongous amount of config files?
Read full review 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 Authentication based on OAuth 2.0 and HTTP Basic Authentication. Rate Limiting applied at different levels like Subscriber, API, Resource and Backend. Monitoring by exporting the metrics in Prometheus and traces in Jaeger. Mediation to perform transformation, orchestration etc. Read full review Cons 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. Read full review Better QA testing prior to releases rollout Better support needed Read full review Support Rating 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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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.
Read full review Providing better capabilities comparing the overall API lifecycle management, especially the availability of API Integration layer and a strong identity layer of their own which provides an end-to-end API ecosystem that would be advantageous in terms of a large software development initiative.
Read full review Return on Investment 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. Read full review We've moved away from legacy SOAP services where nobody knew what services was used by who. WSO2 eliminated at least 90% of time spend on any service. Creating API's (or actually creating the API Management layer...) is so simple that new developers can get away with it in no time. Again, real time gainer. Since creating API's is so simple, developers are very fast in adopting a kind of "Domain thinking". In comparison with Azure API Manager: Azure does not demand knowledge of "how" the product works, but it's definitely more difficult to get an API up and running in Azure. And for some reason, azure does not promote clean domain driven architecture. Domain Driven architecture is the greatest time saver strategy possible. And WSO2 fits nicely in there. Read full review ScreenShots