AWS API Gateway vs. Kong Comparison

Who should you choose and why?

✋ Most important consideration

• Amazon API Gateway is much better suited for working with other AWS services in its ecosystem.

🤔 Strongly consider AWS API Gateway over Kong if

• You want to use identity management and authorization services.
• You’d like out-of-the-box support for Open Banking or FHIR (used in healthcare).
• You’re focussed on better quota management.

🤔 Strongly consider Kong over AWS API Gateway if

• You’d like advanced role-based access control (RBAC) features.
• You want to secure your SOAP-based web services with WS-security.
• You’d like control over API composition and want to aggregate results from multiple services.
• Protocol conversion is important to you.

📝 Other Notes

• Amazon API Gateway isn’t as user-friendly and has fewer integrations.
• Kong has better support for RAML.
• Kong does not provide a comprehensive set of DevOps tools for the integration.