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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Front Door

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/AAzure Front Door is a cloud content delivery network (CDN) service that helps users deliver high performance, scalability, and a secure user experiences for content and applications. It includes a customizable rules engine for advanced routing capabilities. It boasts instant scalability with global HTTP load balancing and failover.

    $35

    per month

    OCI API Management

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a comprehensive set of services to manage the lifecycle of APIs (application programming interfaces). The built-in tools let developers to collaborate on prototyping, testing, and validating APIs.

    $3

    per month per 1 Million API calls

    Pricing
    Azure Front DoorOCI API Management
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $35
    per month
    Premium
    $330
    per month
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    Azure Front DoorOCI API Management
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsBase fees (Billed hourly and only for number of hours used)​—
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    Features
    Azure Front DoorOCI API Management
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Azure Front Door and OCI API Management
    Feature
    Azure Front Door
    -
    Ratings
    OCI API Management
    8.6
    15 Ratings
    2% above category average
    API access control00 Ratings7.915 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings7.814 Ratings
    API usage data00 Ratings9.015 Ratings
    API user onboarding00 Ratings8.814 Ratings
    API versioning00 Ratings9.014 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments00 Ratings8.815 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging00 Ratings9.015 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Amazon CloudFront
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Amazon API Gateway
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Google Cloud CDN
    Score6.2 out of 10
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Azure CDN
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Postman
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure Front DoorOCI API Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure Front DoorOCI API Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Azure Front Door is very easy and fast to set up and implement, if you are looking for an easy solution that is secure and reliable, Front Door does all that and can be configured in a few hours. AFD is a CDN with WAF, accordingly, it is well suited for any CDN Scenario, other providers such as Akamai or Verizon have a more expensive base price and are harder to manage/configure, Front Door is simple, easy, and provides what's needed when it comes to Web App Security. If you have multiple data centers, have apps in different regions, or targeting a global audience, AFD is an excellent option to get up to speed quickly. If you are looking for more features and capabilities, or planning a very complex setup, Front Door might be sufficient, but other specialized provides such as Imperva, Cloudflare or Akamai are generally a bit more advanced (but harder to set up and maintain). It always depends on the scenario, but for us, Front Door was an excellent option and served us very well with no issues.
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    Oracle
    Oracle API Manager is well suited in a business or company that make use of Apis to facilitate access of backend services and data sources by the staff or customers or both. It is also imported in situations where all actions in a system need to be attributed to specific users.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Content delivery across all continents
    • Web & media acceleration
    • Web application firewall
    • Backend geo-availability
    • Reporting & access metrics
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    Oracle
    • API Manager allows for REST and SOAP API's to be easily created and tracked
    • API Manager allows for only certain people/applications to use the API (does this thru a subscriber service it provides)
    • It also publishes the API's it is tracking so developers can easily know what interfaces already exist.
    • The monitoring ability is a nice feature. The admin person can easily see how and where the APIs are currently being used
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Better control over origin caching
    • Hierarchal Management UI instead of distributed management
    • TLS & Cipher Control
    • Faster publishing or change updates
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    Oracle
    • Absence of Role-Based Access. A finer grain control on what type of users can call certain API Endpoints is needed.
    • Performance with third-party databases isn't as fast as using Oracle Database.
    • Long learning curve. Although Oracle API Manager provides performance and a vast deal of features, a certain level of expertise is required to effectively make use of them.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    It's generally hard to compare CDNs, each has its features, POP locations, latency, and availability. We have used many other CDNs, including Akamai, Verizon, and Cloudflare. They are all great, but each has its own advantages/disadvantages. From our perspective, all other providers were much harder to configure and maintain and their overall cost was higher than AFD. For example, Verizon was great, performance was excellent, but reporting/logging was not up to our expectations, and we had many issues with its Rules Engine. AFD is great for delivering your web apps globally quickly and easily, the cost is reasonable and comes with very little operational overhead, the logging and reporting capabilities are very good, additionally, its integration with Azure Cloud Services gives it an advantage over other competitors.
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    Oracle
    Oracle API Manager is much easier to learn and understand then IBM Data Power Gateway and IBM API Connect. We selected Oracle API Manager in our company because to have a good intuitive interface with drag and drop features and because beginners and easily get up to speed to use this tool.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • AFD implementation was approx. 80% cheaper than other providers, from initiation to operation.
    • It allowed us to minimize backend resources size/processing power, taking all the load from client requests, cutting tens of thousands of dollars monthly on compute, memory, and network bandwidth.
    • Overall, the ROI of AFD is very quick, it is not an expensive solution, therefore, its ROI goals are easy to calculate and achieve, our overall ROI exceeded 300%.
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    Oracle
    • Oracle API Manager supports both REST & SOAP API's.
    • Secure and attributable connection to back-end services and data sources. In addition to creating API's for querying data, you can also create API endpoints that can manipulate the data in the back-end databases.
    • Although Oracle API Manager provides performance and a vast deal of features, to start with it is really important you train your people working on development, deployment and administrators to effectively use Oracle API Manager.
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