Amazon API Gateway and Ambassador Edge Stack are sometimes compared for numerous use cases in API Gateway and API Management. We have a detailed features table below. You can also customize your requirements and get expert ratings comparing these two solutions against hundreds of data points across Security, Lifecycle, Support, Workflow, Pricing, Use Case Fit, Attack Protection, Access Controls, Integration, Observability, Traffic Management, Policy Management, Governance, Service Orchestration, Ecosystem, Compliance, Authentication and Performance.
Amazon API Gateway is a fully-managed service, which forms the public-facing part of Amazon’s serverless infrastructure in collaboration with AWS Lambda. While AWS Lambda is responsible for executing the code, the API Gateway exposes those endpoints to the necessary services, thereby providing an effective and efficient interface between Amazon's serverless infrastructure and the end-users. This symbiotic relationship between AWS Lambda and API Gateway enables Amazon to deliver a robust, efficient, and scalable API management solution.
Ambassador Edge Stack is a cloud native API gateway and a Kubernetes native microservices management platform. Ambassador uses the Envoy proxy as its core proxy. At its core, Ambassador is designed to serve as an ingress controller for Kubernetes. In this capacity, it acts as the entry point for external traffic into the Kubernetes environment.
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| Feature | Dimensions | Description | AWS | Ambassador |
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| DDoS and Abuse Protection |
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Mitigate abuse with IP filtering, rate limits, and integration with DDoS defense tools. | Great | |
| Malformed Message |
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Protects the API from malformed packet and message attacks. | OK | Poor |
| Malicious Scripting |
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Detects cross-site scripting attacks. | OK | Poor |
| Malware Detection |
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Detects malware embedded in attachments. | NA | Poor |
| Message Depth Limit |
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Detects and prevents excessive XML/JSON depth and breadth attacks. | NA | Poor |
| Message Injection |
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Monitors for SQL, JavaScript, and Xpath/Query injection attacks. | OK | Poor |
| Parameter Inspection |
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Protects against parameter attacks that exploit the data sent into an API. | Good | OK |
| System Overload |
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Throttles throughput based on values you configure to protect downstream systems. | Good | OK |
| Threat Detection & Bot Protection |
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Block attacks with pattern detection and bot behavior analysis. | Good | |
| Basic Authentication |
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A simple authentication scheme that is built into the HTTP protocol. | Poor | Poor |
| Digest Access Authentication |
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Method of authentication wherein a request from a potential user is received by a network server and then sent to a domain controller. | NA | Poor |
| Identity Management |
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Provides an identity management solution or allows you to work with your pre-existing identity management solution. | OK | Poor |
| Key Management |
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Integrate with external secure token services. | OK | Poor |
| OAuth |
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Open standard authorization framework. | Good | Poor |
| OpenID |
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Support for pen standard and decentralized authentication protocol OpenID. | Good | OK |
| Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) |
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Integrate with external Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). | Good | Poor |
| SAML Support |
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Support for SAML, an XML based open standard for transferring data between two parties. | OK | NA |
| Single Sign-on (SSO) |
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Configure Single Sign-On (SSO) using SAML 2.0 for easy integration with existing web applications. | OK | Great |
| Token-based Authentication |
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Support for generating application tokens and authenticating using tokens. | OK | NA |
| WS-Security |
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Support for WS-Security, an extension of SOAP for more secure web services. | NA | OK |
| Webhooks |
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Support available to build Async APIs that support user-defined HTTP callbacks from the Internet. | NA | |
| API Revocation |
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Ability to block an API subscription and completely restrict an application. | Good | OK |
| Anonymous Platform Access |
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Expose unrestricted information to anyone, without tracking API usage, consumer applications, or the user's identity. | Good | Poor |
| Audit Logging & Reporting |
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Generate audit logs and reports to support compliance and operational reviews. | Great | |
| CCPA |
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Regulation on data protection and privacy of the data tied to residents of California. | OK | OK |
| Certifications and Attestations |
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Leverage third-party certifications to validate security and process maturity. | Great | |
| Compliance Automation |
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Automatically invoke external scripts that determine performance, security, and design compliance. | Good | |
| Data Encryption |
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Encrypt the data in-flight. | Great | |
| Data Masking |
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Ability to hide specific fields, like passwords, social security numbers, or any other sensitive information, in the message body for logging purposes. | Poor | |
| FedRAMP |
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Ensures that the government security requirements outlined in NIST 800-53 are met and supplemented by the PMO of FedRAMP. | Great | |
| Fine-grained Access |
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Limit access to API operations by API consumer or restrict consumption access to specific API operations. | Great | NA |
| GDPR |
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Regulation on data protection and data privacy tied to EU residents. | Great | NA |
| Governance & Policy Compliance |
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Enforce internal standards on API design, security, and documentation. | Great | |
| HIPAA |
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Demonstrates security and compliance with standards of the healthcare industry. | Great | OK |
| HITRUST |
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Demonstrates compliance with HITRUST CSF which is an industry-agnostic certifiable framework for regulatory compliance and risk management. This framework, developed by the not-for-profit organization HITRUST, contains a set of prescriptive controls that relate to the organizational processes and technical controls for processing, storing, and transmitting sensitive data. | Great | Poor |
| IP Whitelisting/Blacklisting |
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Block or allow requests from an IP address without checking whether the requests are malicious. | OK | |
| ISO 27001 |
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Standard for information security management systems. | Great | |
| PCI |
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Standard that ensures security guidelines are met for all entities that store, process, or transmit cardholder data and/or sensitive authentication data. | Great | OK |
| PSD2 |
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Demonstrates compliance with European regulations related to the Payment Services Directive. | NA | Poor |
| Platform Access Levels |
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Define what information different users on the account can access and edit. | Great | Poor |
| Platform Access Revocation |
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Administrators can block or suspend consumers, revoke developer access, and block all related applications. | Great | Poor |
| Policy Bundling |
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Bundle multiple policies. | NA | Poor |
| Policy Contracts |
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Validate API conformity with your policies using contracts. | NA | |
| Policy Deployment |
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Live configuration deployment of policies without any downtime. | Good | Poor |
| Policy Design |
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Combine service tiers, security policies, mediators, and monetization schemes into a pre-built 'plan' that may be attached to an API definition. | NA | Poor |
| Policy Enforcement |
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Enforce API runtime policies and API lifecycle policies. | Good | Poor |
| Policy Tagging |
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Specify rules that are only applicable to resources when they are tagged. | NA | Poor |
| Policy Versioning |
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Manage multiple versions of a policy. | NA | OK |
| RBAC |
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Define custom user roles and associated permissions. Administrators, publishers and consumers can have role-based access controls defined by API endpoint. | Poor | Great |
| Regulatory Data Controls |
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Ensure data residency, logging controls, and anonymization to meet legal standards. | Good | |
| SOC |
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Standard promoted by the American Institute of CPAs that ensures the integrity and privacy of customer data. | Great | OK |
| SSL/TLS |
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Secure server communication using SSL/TLS. | Great | OK |
| User Auditing |
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Natively provides audit logs. | OK | |
| API Cataloging |
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Create a catalog of the APIs you build and share the catalog with external systems. | OK | |
| API Community |
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Manage multiple developer communities, and enable collaboration between them during the entire API lifecycle. | NA | |
| API Monetization |
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Supports the monetization of APIs with features like invoice generation and tiered billing categories. | Poor | |
| API Productization |
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Launch your APIs as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products to monetize any niche functionality you can provide. | OK | |
| API Publication |
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Publish APIs to external consumers, partners, and internal users. | Good | |
| CLI & Tooling Support |
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Enable automation and scripting through command-line tools and API management interfaces. | Great | |
| Contract Management |
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Contract Management | NA | |
| Developer Portal Customization |
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Customize the developer portal according to the needs of different API developers. | OK | |
| Onboarding Workflows |
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Simplify developer onboarding with self-service signup, app registration, and guided workflows. | Poor | |
| SDK & Client Library Generation |
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Automatically generate SDKs in multiple languages to streamline API integration. | Good | |
| Sandbox & Mock Support |
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Provide developers with isolated environments and mock endpoints for safe API testing. | Great | |
| TeamCity |
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Support available to with TeamCity for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment. | NA | |
| Caching & Compression |
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Improve response times and reduce backend load with configurable caching and response compression. | Great | |
| Resilience Patterns (Circuit Breakers & Retries) |
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Prevent cascading failures and enhance stability with built-in circuit breakers, timeouts, and retry logic. | Poor | |
| SLA Enforcement & Quotas |
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Enforce service level agreements with quotas, rate limits, and burst controls on API usage. | Good | |
| Low-Cost Pricing Per API Call |
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Pricing model is economical for medium to high amounts of API calls (3M+ calls a month). | Great | Poor |
| Low-Cost Pricing for API Gateways |
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Pricing model is economical for API Gateways. | Great | Poor |
| Low-Cost Pricing for High Egress |
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Pricing model is economical for high amounts of egress or data transfer. | OK | Poor |
| Low-Cost Pricing for Low API Call Volume |
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Pricing model is economical for a low API call volume (<1M calls a month). | Great | OK |
| API Design Tools |
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Provides comprehensive API design tools. | OK | |
| Authorization Service |
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Integrate an external OAuth resource server, external right repositories and authorization services. | Great | Poor |
| Directory Service |
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Integrate with existing directory services (e.g. internal LDAP, Microsoft Active Directory). | Good | Poor |
| MQTT |
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Support available for building Async APIs to retrieve data from IoT Systems using MQTT Protocols. | NA | |
| Microgateway |
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A lightweight, distributed API proxy to enforce policies and business logic at or near the service endpoints. | NA | |
| Test Reports |
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Provide test reports and detail the available report formats. | NA | |
| API Composition |
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Aggregate results from multiple service interfaces into a single result. | Poor | OK |
| Advanced Traffic Control & Shaping |
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Manage API traffic with routing, load balancing, and deployment strategies like canary releases and blue/green deployments. | Good | |
| Data Transformation & Protocol Mediation |
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Translate data formats and mediate between protocols such as REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and gRPC. | Good | |
| GraphQL |
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Support for GraphQL with Rest APIs to extract data from multiple underlying APIs. | OK | NA |
| OData |
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Support for Open Data Protocol (OData) for defining and consuming the APIs. | NA | Poor |
| RAML |
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Support for Restful API Modelling Language (RAML) which uses YAML for describing the APIs. | NA | OK |
| gRPC |
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Support for Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) APIs that are sent over HTTP 2.0. | OK | OK |
| API Developer Portal |
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Allows developers to focus on configuration rather than writing custom code. | OK | |
| 24/7 Enterprise Support |
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Access around-the-clock technical support with defined SLAs. | Great | |
| Community and Ecosystem Support |
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Leverage open forums and partner solutions for additional guidance. | Great | |
| Dedicated Account Management |
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Receive proactive help from vendor-assigned customer success managers. | Great | |
| Managed Service Options |
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Offload operations to a vendor-managed service for reduced maintenance. | OK | |
| Training and Onboarding Services |
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Accelerate adoption with formal training programs and onboarding help. | Great | |
| Upgrade & Maintenance Strategy |
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Minimize disruption with scheduled updates, patches, and long-term support options. | Good | |
| Fine-Grained Access Control |
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Define detailed access policies using scopes, roles, or attributes. | Great | |
| API Metadata Management |
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Efficiently manage your API metadata. | OK | |
| Custom Workflow |
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Enforce corporate policies via customizable workflows and gating for when users perform specific actions, like registration, subscription, API creation, and application creation. | NA | |
| Dependency Management |
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Supports dependency management features between APIs and services. | NA | |
| Impact Analysis |
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Views into how the API, service tier, or monetization schedule modifications may impact consumers, developers, and providers. | NA | |
| Issue Management |
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Perform exception analysis and track open issues. | NA | |
| Workflow Management |
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Automate the processes of the entire API lifecycle by applying specific rules and policies at each stage. | NA | |
| Amazon CodeDeploy |
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NA | ||
| Azure DevOps |
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OK | ||
| Bamboo |
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Support available to with Bamboo for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment. | OK | |
| CI/CD Integration |
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Integrate with your continuous integration, development, and deployment practices. | Good | |
| CircleCI |
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Support available to with CircleCI for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment. | OK | |
| Cloud Deployment (SaaS) |
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All the software components for the API management platform are run on a cloud environment. | Great | |
| CodeShip |
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Support available to with CodeShip for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment. | OK | |
| Cyber Ark |
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Support integration with Cyber Ark. | OK | Good |
| ForgeRock |
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Support integration with ForgeRock. | OK | NA |
| GitLab CI |
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Support available to with GitLab CI for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment. | OK | |
| Google Cloud Deploy |
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NA | ||
| Hybrid Deployment |
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Some software components of the API management platform are run in a cloud environment, while others are run in your data centers. | Poor | |
| IBM Security Verify |
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Support integration with IBM Security Verify. | OK | OK |
| Jenkins |
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Support available to with Jenkins for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment. | NA | |
| Micro Focus |
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Support integration with Micro Focus. | NA | Poor |
| Microsoft Active Directory |
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Support integration with Microsoft Active Directory. | OK | OK |
| Okta |
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Support integration with Okta. | Good | OK |
| On-premises Deployment |
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All the software components for the API management platform are deployed on machines in your data centers. | NA | |
| OneLogin |
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Support integration with OneLogin. | Good | OK |
| Ping Identity |
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Support integration with Ping Identity. | Good | Poor |
| Travis CI |
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Support available to with Travis CI for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment. | NA | |
| API Discovery |
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Provide an API portal or catalog for API discovery. | OK | |
| API Mediation |
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Supports message format transformation, protocol conversion, and service call formatting. | OK | |
| API Mocking Tools |
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Supports the creation of a stub service when the backend is not available. | Good | |
| API Search |
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Perform API searches ranging from simple keyword searches to sophisticated, model-based, or metadata-based searches. | NA | |
| API Test Automation |
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Automatically generate and execute tests. | NA | |
| API Version Management |
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Support and maintain different versions of APIs. | Good | |
| Automated Builds |
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Automated builds and deployments. | NA | |
| Automatic API Generation |
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Supports the automatic generation of API specs from code. | OK | |
| Client SDK |
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Auto generate client-side code (e.g., Javascript, Node.js, Python libraries). | Great | |
| Common API Design |
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Supports defining, implementing, and validating consistent design standards for APIs across the organization. | OK | |
| Load Balancing |
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Balances load across multiple service endpoint hosts and API endpoint hosts. | NA | |
| OAS 2.0 |
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Supports Open API Standard v2.0, which is used for designing RESTful APIs. | Great | |
| OAS 3.0 |
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Supports Open API Standard v3.0, which is used for RESTful APIs. | Great | |
| Prebuilt API Mappings |
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Get prebuilt API specifications and mappings based on business functions or industry verticals like banking, finance, travel, and retail. | NA | |
| Server Sent Events (SSE) |
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Build Async APIs that support server push technology, which enables automatic server updates to clients via an HTTP connection. | NA | |
| Test Console |
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Provides interactive tools to test an API without writing test code. | OK | |
| Traceability |
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Trace an API through its execution. | Great | |
| WSDL |
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Supports Web Services Description Language (WSDL), an XML format for SOAP-based web services. | NA | |
| WebSockets |
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Supports communication over WebSockets. | Great | |
| API Report Design |
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Create new reports and dashboards through a wizard that pulls data from different types of metrics. | Poor | |
| API Usage Monitoring |
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Get detailed reports on your total traffic volume coming through the API platform's gateway. | Good | |
| Activity Logging |
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Provides API performance and error logging. | Great | |
| Alerting and Notifications |
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Delivers notifications and alerts when Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are approaching or have exceeded a specified threshold. | Good | |
| Cache Analytics |
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Provides in-cache analytics and covers how cache information is structured (e.g., web service, API, subscriber, application, organizational levels). | OK | |
| Granular Analytics & Monitoring |
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Monitor API performance with high-resolution metrics segmented by endpoint, user, or region. | OK | |
| Observability (Logging & Tracing) |
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Gain full visibility into API behavior through logging, distributed tracing, and correlation ID support. | Great | |
| QoS Dashboard |
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Reporting and dashboarding to monitor reliability, availability, scalability, and performance. | OK | |
| API Abuse Detection |
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Detect abnormal use of API for methods that are outside of the intended or acceptable use cases | OK | |
| Custom Authentication Methods |
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Define custom authentication methods for allowing access to the services. | OK | |
| Domain Policies |
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Enforce access control across multiple developer communities. | OK | |
| IP White/Blacklisting |
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Block or allow requests from an IP address without checking whether the requests are malicious. | OK | |
| Akamai |
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Support integration with Akamai. | Poor | |
| Amazon CloudFront |
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Support integration with Amazon CloudFront. | Poor | |
| Azure CDN |
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Support integration with Azure CDN. | Poor | |
| CacheFly |
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Support integration with CacheFly. | Poor | |
| CloudFlare |
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Support integration with CloudFlare. | OK | |
| Fastly |
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Support integration with Fastly. | NA | |
| Google Cloud CDN |
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Support integration with Google Cloud CDN. | Great | |
| StackPath |
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Support integration with StackPath. | OK | |
| FedRamp |
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Ensures that the government security requirements outlined in NIST 800-53 are met and supplemented by the PMO of FedRAMP. | NA | |
| Traffic Prioritization |
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Detect abnormal use of API for methods that are outside of the intended or acceptable use cases. | OK | |
| Caching |
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API caching reduces the number of calls made to your endpoint. | Poor | |
| Content-based Routing |
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Route the requests based on the content. | OK | |
| Quota Management |
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Provide API administrators the ability to assign specific API call limits based on classes of users. | Poor | |
| Rate Limiting |
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Limits the number of requests an API can accept within a time window. | Poor | |
| Throttling |
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Limits the number of API requests a user can make within a time window. | OK | |
| API Request Auditability |
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Run reports to see requests were made. | OK | |
| API Versioning |
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Virtual API versioning within the API gateway. | OK | |
| API Virtualization |
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Support for creating a virtual copy of your API. | OK | |
| Asia-Pacific Region |
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Data center available in the Asia-Pacific region. | Poor | |
| AsyncAPI |
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Support for the API specification format that uses asynchronous messaging and event-based communication patterns. | OK | |
| EU Region |
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Data center available in the European Union region. | Great | |
| JSON to SOAP Conversion |
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Support for converting SOAP to JSON, or JSON to XML. | OK | |
| JSON to XML Conversion |
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Support for converting SOAP to JSON, or JSON to XML. | Good | |
| North America Region |
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Data center available in the North America region. | Poor | |
| OAS/Swagger |
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Support for the Open API Standard (OAS) used when designing Restful APIs. | Poor | |
| SOAP to JSON Conversion |
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Support for converting SOAP to JSON, or JSON to XML. | NA | |
| South America Region |
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Data center available in the South America region. | OK | |
| XML to JSON Conversion |
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Support for converting SOAP to JSON, or JSON to XML. | OK |
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