AWS API Gateway vs. MuleSoft Comparison

Who should you choose and why?

✋ Most important consideration

• Amazon API Gateway has great features for traffic control and security but is not a full lifecycle API management solution like MuleSoft Anypoint API Management.

🤔 Strongly consider AWS API Gateway over MuleSoft if

• You want better traffic control and security for your AWS services.
• You only need a lightweight API gateway and not a full-fledged API management solution.
• You’re managing PKI certificates and want better identity management.

🤔 Strongly consider MuleSoft over AWS API Gateway if

• You’d like API composition, data transformation, and orchestration features on the platform.
• You need a better tool for policy management and enforcing policies on the APIs.
• Better analytics and monitoring features for checking on API performance and uptime are important to you.

📝 Other Notes

• Amazon API Gateway does not have prebuilt accelerators for industry verticals whereas MuleSoft Anypoint API Management does.
• MuleSoft has better support for different API protocols, like OAS2.0, OAS3.0, RAML, WSDL, GraphQL, and gRPC compared to Amazon API Gateway.
• MuleSoft has better API design and mocking tools compared to Amazon API Gateway.