Power AI-driven innovation with unified API management

Azure API Management provides a fully managed service to create, publish, secure, and monitor APIs. It enables developers to streamline API workflows, enhance security, and gain insights into API usage. Ideal for connecting applications and services across various platforms.

Features

• **Flexible API gateway: **Secure and manage APIs with declarative policies for request authentication, validation, routing, throttling, caching, transformation, load balancing, and circuit breaking. Bring any API style, including REST, WebSockets, GraphQL, SOAP, and gRPC.
• **AI-powered API design and policy authoring: **Accelerate API design with GitHub Copilot for Azure Preview for Visual Studio Code by generating high-quality API specifications from prompts or refining existing specifications for quality and compliance. Simplify policy authoring and troubleshooting with Microsoft Copilot in Azure.
• **Comprehensive AI gateway: **Securely and easily expose popular AI models to your intelligent app developers. Govern usage with detailed token quotas and rate limits, closely track token consumption and costs, ensure low and consistent latencies with semantic caching, and implement prompt and content safety safeguards.
• **Fine-grained monitoring and analytics: **Collect comprehensive request logs and gain insights into API usage, latency, and error rates with pre-built dashboards and integration with Azure Monitor and Application Insights.
• **API compliance, consistency, and unified inventory: **Build a unified API inventory, deployment locations, and lifecycle stages with Azure API Center. Enrich your catalog with custom metadata for improved discoverability and governance. Strengthen API quality and compliance with API design rules and reports, and empower developers to build compliant APIs faster using linting in Visual Studio Code.
• **Out-of-the-box developer portal and API documentation: **Enhance developer experience through self-service API discovery, access management, interactive documentation, and a test console — all tailored to your brand and needs.
• **Seamless connectivity with Azure services: **Natively connect with Azure Functions, Logic Apps, App Service, and other Azure services. With a Kubernetes-managed gateway, enable Kubernetes-first API management experience while unifying security, traffic control, and governance across cloud-native and serverless applications.
• **Automated API operations: **Boost business agility and API reliability with versioning controls and automated API deployments. Choose from a range of CI/CD tooling—Azure Resource Manager, Bicep, Azure CLI, Terraform, and client SDKs—in various programming languages to implement repeatable and automated API deployments.
• **Flexible API management across Hybrid and multi-cloud environments: **Extend API management beyond Azure with self-hosted gateways—lightweight, containerized API gateways deployed alongside your APIs, whether on-premises or in other clouds—enabling consistent API visibility and governance across cloud and on-premises environments.