Azure API Management - Overview and key concepts
Summary
Introduction to key scenarios, capabilities, and concepts of the Azure API Management service. API Management supports the full API lifecycle.
Highlights
nt. Azure API Management is a hybrid, multicloud management platform for APIs across all environments. As a platform-as-a-service, API Management supports the complete API lifecycle. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h1b27n5h5xxr8gdbt12smp8x))
APIs enable digital experiences, simplify application integration, underpin new digital products, and make data and services reusable and universally accessible. With the proliferation and increasing dependency on APIs, organizations need to manage them as first-class assets throughout their lifecycle. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h1b27wgrvwta7wbt23psbkq1))
Azure API Management helps customers meet these challenges:
• Abstract backend architecture diversity and complexity from API consumers
• Securely expose services hosted on and outside of Azure as APIs
• Protect, accelerate, and observe APIs
• Enable API discovery and consumption by internal and external users ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h1b2823km017z56ex27vmkj3))
All requests from client applications first reach the API gateway, which then forwards them to respective backend services. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h1b2bns5m5y5bqnbmw9psd2a))
With the self-hosted gateway, customers can deploy the API gateway to the same environments where they host their APIs, to optimize API traffic and ensure compliance with local regulations and guidelines. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01h1b2bx9fnh9pfd7ywhade3d7))