API Management Policies integrate external services

A set of new policies is available, which is designed to make it easy to integrate external services into your Azure API Management request/response pipeline. Existing policies allow a wide range of manipulations to HTTP requests and responses. However, the new policies enable interactions with external services using HTTP . Examples of scenarios that can be enabled with these policies include:

• Alert error conditions
• Validate reference tokens
• Aggregate responses from distinct backend services
• Enable transparent versioning
• Enable edge caching

To get started:

• Learn how to use the new policies to integrate with external services from your API Management service in Using external services from the Azure API Management service.
• Check out the policy references for the new policies:
  • send-request
  • send-one-way-request
  • return-response