Apigee vs. AWS API Gateway Comparison

Who should you choose and why?

✋ Most important consideration

• Amazon API Gateway is best for routing traffic to other services on the AWS platform, whereas Apigee API Management is a full-blown API management solution for all stages of the API lifecycle.

🤔 Strongly consider Apigee over AWS API Gateway if

• You need a developer portal for customizing your APIs and an API catalog.
• You want strong support for publishing APIs to external and internal consumers as well as partners.

🤔 Strongly consider AWS API Gateway over Apigee if

• You strongly need an API gateway for your backend AWS services.
• You require support for various protocols HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, and WebSockets.
• You need better security features for access control and attack protection.

📝 Other Notes

• Amazon API gateway has very limited features for API publication, and API productization, and lacks basic API management capabilities. After all, it’s not an API management solution. It’s a great API gateway though!
• You need to integrate Amazon CloudWatch to get monitoring and analytics for the API activity. Apigee API Management has all the features for monitoring, reporting, and analytics built inside the platform.