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Microsoft Azure API Management

Hybrid, multi-cloud API management service on Azure

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Overview

What Microsoft Azure API Management does

Azure API Management is a fully managed service that helps developers create, secure, publish, and analyze APIs in a hybrid and multi-cloud environment with complete lifecycle management.

What people use it for

  • API gateway and lifecycle management on Azure
  • Throttling, keys and policies in front of backend services
  • Developer portal for internal and partner APIs
  • Hybrid deployments using self-hosted gateways

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The honest half

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Microsoft Azure API Management.

  • Prices are not shown on the pricing page itself; every tier renders as a placeholder and routes to the calculator or sales
  • Two parallel generations of tiers, classic and v2, so the choice is which lineage before which size
  • The Developer tier is explicitly not for production
  • Self-hosted gateways and workspace gateways are charged separately from the service

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What people choose instead of Microsoft Azure API Management

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Pricing

What Microsoft Azure API Management costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Free

Free

  • 1M calls/month
  • Community support

Developer

$50 /mo

  • 10M calls/month
  • Email support

Premium

$500 /mo

  • Unlimited calls
  • Priority support
  • SLA

Capabilities

Features

  • API Gateway

    API Gateway capability

  • Developer Portal

    Developer Portal capability

  • API Policies

    API Policies capability

  • Azure services

    Integration with Azure services

  • AWS

    Integration with AWS

  • Google Cloud

    Integration with Google Cloud

  • On-premises

    Integration with On-premises

  • Cloud support

    Available on Cloud

  • Hybrid support

    Available on Hybrid

  • Multi-cloud support

    Available on Multi-cloud

Behind it

Who makes Microsoft Azure API Management

Company
Microsoft
Based in
Redmond, Washington, USA
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