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Amazon API Gateway vs Kong vs Restlet Studio

Overview

Restlet Studio

Stacks24

Followers45

Votes2

Kong

Stacks650

Followers1.5K

Votes139

GitHub Stars42.1K

Forks5.0K

Amazon API Gateway

Stacks1.4K

Followers1.1K

Votes45

Advice on Restlet Studio, Kong, Amazon API Gateway

Prateek

Mar 14, 2020

Decided

Istio based on powerful Envoy whereas Kong based on Nginx. Istio is K8S native as well it's actively developed when k8s was successfully accepted with production-ready apps whereas Kong slowly migrated to start leveraging K8s. Istio has an inbuilt turn-keyIstio based on powerful Envoy whereas Kong based on Nginx. Istio is K8S native as well it's actively developed when k8s was successfully accepted with production-ready apps whereas Kong slowly migrated to start leveraging K8s. Istio has an inbuilt turn key solution with Rancher whereas Kong completely lacks here. Traffic distribution in Istio can be done via canary, a/b, shadowing, HTTP headers, ACL, whitelist whereas in Kong it's limited to canary, ACL, blue-green, proxy caching. Istio has amazing community support which is visible via Github stars or releases when comparing both.

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Detailed Comparison

Restlet Studio	Kong	Amazon API Gateway
Packaged as a Chrome extension and accessible from any modern web browser, Restlet Studio instantly provides to any developer powerful API crafting capabilities. Through an intuitive interface, developers can visually define all the elements of a web API, and automatically generate the client SDK and server skeleton of their API.	Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as an API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong controls layer 4 and 7 traffic and is extended through Plugins, which provide extra functionality and services beyond the core platform.	Amazon API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management.
Visual Crafting of APIs;RESTful APIs Made Easy;No Wasted Configuration Time	Logging: Log requests and responses to your system over TCP, UDP or to disk; OAuth2.0: Add easily an OAuth2.0 authentication to your APIs; Monitoring: Live monitoring provides key load and performance server metrics; IP-restriction: Whitelist or blacklist IPs that can make requests; Authentication: Manage consumer credentials query string and header tokens; Rate-limiting: Block and throttle requests based on IP or authentication; Transformations: Add, remove or manipulate HTTP params and headers on-the-fly; CORS: Enable cross-origin requests to your APIs that would otherwise be blocked; Anything: Need custom functionality? Extend Kong with your own Lua plugins;	Build, Deploy and Manage APIs; Resiliency;API Lifecycle Management;SDK Generation;API Operations Monitoring;AWS Authorization;API Keys for Third-Party Developers
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 42.1K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 5.0K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 24	Stacks 650	Stacks 1.4K
Followers 45	Followers 1.5K	Followers 1.1K
Votes 2	Votes 139	Votes 45
Pros & Cons
Pros 1 Powerful & intuitive API designer 1 GitHub Integration 0 Easy to used Cons 0 Opaque Pricing Model	Pros 37 Easy to maintain 32 Easy to install 26 Flexible 21 Great performance 7 Api blueprint	Pros 37 AWS Integration 7 Websockets 1 Serverless Cons 2 No websocket broadcast 1 Less expensive
Integrations
No integrations available	Cassandra Docker Prometheus Kubernetes PostgreSQL NGINX Vagrant	AWS Lambda Amazon CloudWatch

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