Apigee is Google Cloud's native API management solution designed to build, manage, and secure APIs across any environment or scale. It supports diverse API architectural styles, including REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and gRPC, and offers flexible deployment options such as on-premises or cloud environments.

Key Features

• API Creation and Management: Create consistent quality APIs without specialized expertise using prompts and Gemini Code Assist. Generate mock servers for parallel development and collaborative testing.
• API Hub: Consolidate API specifications into a universal catalog for consistent governance and access.
• Advanced API Security: Detects undocumented APIs, assesses managed APIs for security issues, and provides ML-powered dashboards to identify critical API abuses.
• Traffic Management: Orchestrate and manage API traffic with support for various architectural styles.
• Hybrid Deployment: Deploy APIs in data centers or public clouds using Apigee Hybrid.
• Policies and Customization: Use policies to program API behavior without coding, and extend functionality with custom scripts.
• API Products and Monetization: Bundle APIs into products, publish in developer portals, and define rate plans for monetization.
• Analytics and Performance Monitoring: Use built-in dashboards to analyze API traffic and performance.

Benefits

• Enhanced Security: Protects APIs from unauthorized access and malicious activities.
• Improved Developer Experience: Simplifies API access and adoption through developer portals.
• Flexibility and Scalability: Supports diverse deployment environments and scales according to demand.
• Monetization Opportunities: Enables businesses to create revenue streams from API products.