Azure updates

Announcing General Availability of Azure API Management Basic v2 and Standard v2 Tiers

Target availability: Q2 2024

We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of Azure API Management's newest pricing tiers – Basic v2 and Standard v2. The Azure API Management v2 pricing tiers represent a significant leap forward, offering a comprehensive range of capabilities tailored to projects of all sizes, from small-scale endeavors to large-scale enterprise applications. Importantly, these new v2 pricing tiers are available alongside our existing Azure API Management classic pricing tiers, ensuring continuity for users. It's worth noting that the Azure API Management classic pricing tiers remain actively supported and invested in.  

• API Management
• Pricing & Offerings

Public Preview: Circuit Breaker in Azure API Management

Target availability: Q1 2024

Customers now have the capability to configure the circuit breaker property in the backend resource, providing protection for a backend service against being overwhelmed by excessive requests.

• API Management
• Features

Announcing General Availability of Microsoft Defender for APIs

Target availability: Q4 2023

The general availability of Defender for APIs, a new offering as part of Microsoft Defender for Cloud, that helps organizations prevent, detect, and respond to API threats with an integrated cloud security context.

• API Management
• Features

Announcing Public Preview of Azure API Management Pricing Tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2

Target availability: Q4 2023

We're thrilled to announce the public preview launch of our latest Azure API Management pricing tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2. These new tiers address highly sought-after customer requests, bring quality-of-service enhancements, and offer a flexible starting point for API Management, allowing organizations of any size to embark on their API journey.

• API Management
• Features

Public Preview: OData API type in Azure API Management

We are excited to announce the public preview of the OData API type in Azure API Management. This new capability extends the benefits and capabilities of Azure API Management to OData APIs, including the ability to secure them with standard API protections, such as authentication, authorization, and rate limiting, in combination with OData-specific policies for request validation.

• API Management
• Features

Public Preview: GraphQL resolvers for Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL in Azure API Management

We are thrilled to announce the public preview of Azure Cosmos DB and Azure SQL resolvers for GraphQL in Azure API Management.

• API Management
• Features

Public Preview – Support for WebSocket APIs in Azure API Management Self-hosted Gateway 

We are announcing the native support for WebSocket APIs in the self-hosted gateway feature inside Azure API Management.

• API Management
• Features

Public Preview: Azure API Management and Microsoft Defender for APIs integration

Take your API security coverage to the next level with Azure API Management and Microsoft Defender for APIs integration.

• API Management
• Features

Generally available: Azure Private Link support for Inbound traffic in Azure API Management

With Azure Private Link support in Azure API Management, you can now integrate clients in a virtual network privately.

• API Management
• Microsoft Build

Support for Azure API Management self-hosted gateway version 0 and version 1 ends 1 October 2023

After 1 October 2023, version 0 and version 1 self-hosted gateway will not be supported.

• API Management
• Retirements
• Features

Generally available: API Management custom widget support in developer portal

Add custom logic to the managed developer portal capabilities and leverage improved custom widget development.

• API Management
• Features