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Amazon API Gateway vs Tyk Cloud: What are the differences?

Amazon API Gateway: Create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. 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; Tyk Cloud: Open Source API Management. Tyk is a lightweight, open source API Gateway and enables you to control who accesses your API, when they access it and how they access it. Tyk will also record detailed analytics on how your users are interacting with your API and when things go wrong.

Amazon API Gateway and Tyk Cloud can be primarily classified as "API" tools.

Some of the features offered by Amazon API Gateway are:

Build, Deploy and Manage APIs
Resiliency
API Lifecycle Management

On the other hand, Tyk Cloud provides the following key features:

API Management Dashboard
API Analytics
API Developer Portal

"AWS Integration" is the top reason why over 23 developers like Amazon API Gateway, while over 5 developers mention "Full featured" as the leading cause for choosing Tyk Cloud.

Tyk Cloud is an open source tool with 4.6K GitHub stars and 616 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Tyk Cloud's open source repository on GitHub.

Pros of Amazon API Gateway

Pros of Tyk Cloud

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AWS Integration
2
Websockets

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Full featured
4
Easy to install
4
Great Performance
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Flexible
1
Good value
1
Easy to use
1
Better Oauth integration

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Cons of Amazon API Gateway

Cons of Tyk Cloud

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No websocket broadcast
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Less expensive

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What is Amazon API Gateway?

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.

What is Tyk Cloud?

Tyk is a lightweight, open source API Gateway and enables you to control who accesses your API, when they access it and how they access it. Tyk will also record detailed analytics on how your users are interacting with your API and when things go wrong.

What companies use Amazon API Gateway?

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What are some alternatives to Amazon API Gateway and Tyk Cloud?

Apigee

API management, design, analytics, and security are at the heart of modern digital architecture. The Apigee intelligent API platform is a complete solution for moving business to the digital world.

Kong

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.

NGINX

nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.

Zuul

It is the front door for all requests from devices and websites to the backend of the Netflix streaming application. As an edge service application, It is built to enable dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, and security. Routing is an integral part of a microservice architecture.

Azure API Management

Today's innovative enterprises are adopting API architectures to accelerate growth. Streamline your work across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with a single place for managing all your APIs.

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News about Amazon API Gateway

Amazon API Gateway Now Features Content Encoding Support for API Responses

(www.programmableweb.com)

Jan 3, 2018

Secure API Access with Amazon Cognito Federated Identities, Amazon Cognito User Pools, and Amazon API Gateway

(aws.amazon.com)

Jun 19, 2017

Implementing Serverless Manual Approval Steps in AWS Step Functions and Amazon API Gateway