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    Akamai API Gateway

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AAkamai offers their API Gateway, touting easy control and access to enterprise applications via their services.N/A

    Amazon API Gateway

    Score8.2 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.

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    Features
    Akamai API GatewayAmazon API Gateway
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Akamai API Gateway and Amazon API Gateway
    Feature
    Akamai API Gateway
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Amazon API Gateway
    7.7
    13 Ratings
    7% below category average
    API access control8.01 Ratings6.412 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies7.01 Ratings7.012 Ratings
    API usage data8.01 Ratings8.212 Ratings
    API user onboarding8.01 Ratings8.212 Ratings
    API versioning7.01 Ratings9.212 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments7.01 Ratings7.611 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging9.01 Ratings7.413 Ratings
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    Akamai API GatewayAmazon API Gateway
    Small Businesses
    Amazon API Gateway
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure API Management
    Score8 out of 10
    Azure API Management
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    OCI API Management
    Score8.2 out of 10
    OCI API Management
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Akamai API GatewayAmazon API Gateway
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (13 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Akamai API GatewayAmazon API Gateway
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Akamai
    It is really helpful for managing [the] scaling of systems with need and utilizing resources when needed. Also, DevOps support for deployment plans is quite useful when deploying applications. Monitoring systems with graphQL and utilizing them in APIs is quite helpful when used in Microservices systems to identify system capabilities and user utilization of applications.
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    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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    Pros
    Akamai
    • Graphically representation in GraphQL
    • Scaling system
    • DevOps management
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    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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    Cons
    Akamai
    • Quota enforcement can be simplified
    • Caching mechanism for API with akamai can be improved
    • Gateway configuration can be simplified as details are not much elaborate
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    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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    Support Rating
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    Akamai
    Akamai [API Gateway] helps better in terms of representation of graphQL and its consumption in monitoring system making a package for deployment speed with monitoring and scaling application with all services and utilizing most of a system without much knowledge of other aspects. Also, [a] user-friendly system helps people to handle [the] system with necessary options
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    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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    Return on Investment
    Akamai
    • Decrease in time required for deployment and monitoring by significant amount causing less support resources needed
    • Scaling applications on month-end at high usage time has reduced TAT time for issues and no of issues occurring
    • Quota enforcement has allowed [managing] multiple systems and their needs in respective stakeholders hands and reduced infra teams involvement in [the] management of reoccurring problems
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    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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