What Is Azure API Management

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URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/api-management-key-concepts
Author: dlepow

Summary

Introduction to key scenarios, capabilities, and concepts of the Azure API Management service. API Management supports the full API lifecycle.

Highlights Added July 17, 2024 at 11:02 AM

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))