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API Management

Hybrid, multi-cloud management platform for APIs across all environments

Move faster with unified 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.

Microsoft named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management

Manage APIs across clouds and on-premises

In addition to Azure, deploy the API gateways side by side with the APIs hosted in other clouds and on-premises to optimise API traffic flow. Meet security and compliance requirements while enjoying a unified management experience and full observability across all internal and external APIs.

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Help protect your resources

Selectively expose data and services to employees, partners and customers by applying authentication, authorisation, and usage limits.

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Accelerate your business

Build apps faster and deliver immediate value to your customers through API-first approaches. Decouple front and back-end teams through API mocking, API revisions and versioning, and automating API documentation. See how Wegmans created a new mobile application in under eight weeks.

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Improve API discoverability

Create a customisable developer portal for all your APIs. Easily share APIs with internal teams, external partners and customers.

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Transform your existing services

Automatically turn legacy web services into modern REST-based APIs by creating façades for your back-end services. See how innovators like Vipps, a leading payment service in Norway, are revolutionising development using Azure API Management.

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Help secure your APIs

  • Keep all your APIs behind a single static IP or domain, and help protect them with keys, tokens and IP filtering.
  • Enforce flexible and fine-grained quotas and rate limits. Modify the shape and behaviour of your APIs using policies. And improve latency and scale your APIs with response caching.
  • Connect on-premises APIs to cloud services by creating a façade that lets you safely integrate on-premises and cloud environments.
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Resources for getting started

API Design

Promote adoption of your APIs through effective design, patterns and principles.

Read the guide

APIs and Microservices: The ultimate guide to creating an enterprise API platform

Develop and manage new software, faster, with API-centred architectures and modular software design through microservices.

Read the e-book

API Management in a Hybrid and Multi-Cloud World

Explore the benefits of managing APIs in a unified environment and how to get started with hybrid and cross-cloud API management.

Read the white paper

Manage Your Microservices

Increase the discoverability and usability of the microservices in your organisation by leveraging the principles of API management.

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Trusted by companies of all sizes

  1. Cemex
  2. Starbucks
  3. Finastra
  4. Swiss Re

"Customization is one of the strongest features of Azure API Management. We can customize our portal easily, moving components into the base, adding our own images and text, and choosing from a wide variety of layouts to highlight our brand."

Ricardo Chapa, Head of Digital Architecture and Emerging Technologies, CEMEX
Cemex

"It was essential for us to maintain business momentum while we scaled up. We were able to do both by working with the expert Microsoft cloud team in Norway and the mature, flexible, and powerful Azure platform."

Thomas Wold Johansen, Chief Technology Officer, Vipps
Starbucks

"We are able to see which APIs are getting the most use and which ones aren't. We use this information to understand current trends on a very granular level. We share findings with our API partners to help them maximize success and optimize their application delivery journey."

Félix Grévy, Global Head of Product Management, Finastra
Finastra

"A high-transaction, low-margin business is new for our company, and we can't invest thousands of dollars on a database server to support the venture…. We needed a very scalable, cost-effective PaaS environment, and that's what Azure provided."

Jürg Staub, Head of Technical Architecture for Property and Casualty, Swiss Re
Swiss Re

Flexible pricing that scales with your needs

Choose from a range of pricing options – from pay-as-you-go to dedicated offering–based. Easily move from one pricing tier to another as traffic or needs change.

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Start using API Management

Get instant access and $200 credit by creating your Azure free account.

Review the documentation and create your first Azure API Management service instance.

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