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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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.

    $0.90

    Per Million

    Cloudflare

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ACloudflare’s connectivity cloud is a unified platform of cloud-native services designed to help enterprises regain control over their IT environments. Powered by an intelligent, programmable global cloud network, it is built to offer security, performance, visibility, and reliability.

    $20

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon API GatewayCloudflare
    Editions & Modules
    Past 300 Million
    $0.90
    Per Million
    First 300 Million
    $1.00
    Per Million
    Pro
    $20
    per month
    Business
    $200
    per month
    Free
    Free
    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon API GatewayCloudflare
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon API GatewayCloudflare
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
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    Cloudflare
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    152 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    147 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    152 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    128 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    135 Answers
    Features
    Amazon API GatewayCloudflare
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Amazon API Gateway and Cloudflare
    Feature
    Amazon API Gateway
    7.7
    13 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Cloudflare
    -
    Ratings
    API access control6.412 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies7.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    API usage data8.212 Ratings00 Ratings
    API user onboarding8.212 Ratings00 Ratings
    API versioning9.212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments7.611 Ratings00 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging7.413 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Amazon API GatewayCloudflare
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure API Management
    Score8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    OCI API Management
    Score8.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Amazon API GatewayCloudflare
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (13 ratings)
    9.2
    (173 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (141 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon API GatewayCloudflare
    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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    Cloudflare
    Cloudflare works well as security measure that gives peace of mind without needing to work too hard to get it functioning well. It provides great tools to customize the security experience as well. This is all the same for the caching tools as well. They have a lot of built in tools that make using the caching easy right out of the box, but they provide the customization options to get things just right for your site.
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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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    Cloudflare
    • The best part is the content delivery network. Cloudflare has a large network of data centres around the world that helps cache and delivers content quickly to our customers.
    • Cloudflare offers us with a fast and reliable DNS service and with the world class features such as Cloudflare workers, SSL verification, certificate management and web application firewall. When all of these are combined together, it provides very strict security for our organization.
    • One of the most important feature that we use is the analytics and threat detection. It provides us with the real time insights of all the threats originating from multiple locations and landing on our websites.
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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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    Cloudflare
    • In some cases, using Cloudflare can actually lead to slower website speeds if the network is congested or if the website's traffic is particularly heavy.
    • Some website owners may find that the level of customization offered by Cloudflare is limited, especially in comparison to other solutions.
    • While Cloudflare is easy to set up and manage, it may be too complex for users who are not familiar with web technologies.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Cloudflare
    lower cost
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Cloudflare
    Everything is extremely concise and all settings apply immediately and take effect globally. There is no reason to explicitly plan/think in terms of individual regions as one would have to traditional cloud offerings (AWS, OCI, Azure). All Cloudflare products integrate seamless as part of a single pipeline that executes from request to response.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Cloudflare
    In 6+ years of relying on Cloudflare, I think we experienced one or two brief outages that were Cloudflare's fault.
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Cloudflare
    Their Argo for the global network is the core feature we love.
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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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    Cloudflare
    Excellent product, Cloudflare is a true pioneer of the modern Internet, providing tools, services, and expertise that vastly improve the performance and security of web services. Any issues are resolved quickly with detailed RCA and follow-ups published publicly. I'm thankful to Cloudflare and use their services both at work and at home.
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    Implementation Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Cloudflare
    Very well executed implementation where our team was able to handle the implementation with guidance.
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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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    Cloudflare
    They have the most generous free offering, and after the free offering limit is reached - you're still getting plenty of value for the buck.
    They have very good reputation.
    They have an ever expanding list of tools that can support multiple scenarios under one roof.
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    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Cloudflare
    They are built for scale and have the capacity to handle all the traffic we could ever expect to get.
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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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    Cloudflare
    • Immediate ROI on Registrar and DNS hosting while giving a single plane of glass to managing both with domain registrations at cost, and no cost DNS hosting
    • WAF helped us move at risk servers/applications into a protected state allowing us to perform remediations at a measured pace and get them done right instead of band aide solutions.
    • CDN proxying increase the speed of our website while simultaneously reducing server load.
    • DMARC management and report interpretation allow use to identify weak points in our email systems, remediate and move to stricter policies without significantly increasing staff time spent managing it.
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