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Azure API Management allows organizations to publish APIs hosted on Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds more securely, reliably, and at scale. Use API Management to drive API consumption among internal teams, partners, and developers while benefiting from business and log analytics available in the admin portal. This service helps provide the tools your organization needs for end-to-end API management—everything from provisioning user roles, creating usage plans and quotas, applying policies for transforming payloads, throttling, analytics, monitoring, and alerts.
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Important—The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes. An eNF will not be issued.
| Consumption | Developer | Basic | Standard | Premium | IsolatedPreview | |
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| Purpose | Lightweight and serverless version of API Management service, billed per execution | Non-production use cases and evaluations | Entry-level production use cases | Medium-volume production use cases | High-volume or enterprise production use cases | Enterprise production use cases requiring high degree of isolation |
| Price (per unit) | 0-1 million calls per subscription - Included Unlimited - $- per 10,000 calls 1+ million calls - $- per 10,000 calls | $- | $- | $- | $- Unit cost of incremental units (>1) of the same service instance charged at 50% of the first unit purchased. | TBA7 |
| Cache (per unit) | External only | 10 MB | 50 MB | 1 GB | 5 GB | 5 GB |
| Scale-out (units) | N/A (automatic scaling) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 12 per region (call support to add more) | 12 per region (call support to add more) |
| SLA | 99.95% | No | 99.95% | 99.95% | 99.99%1 | 99.99% |
| Isolation | Shared | Private | Private | Private | Private | Private |
| Usage limits | Limits apply | No | No | No | No | No |
| Cache, external3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Developer portal | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple custom domain names4 | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Azure Active Directory integration in developer portal | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Availability Zone support | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Virtual Network support | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-region deployment | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted gateway | No | Yes5 | No | No | Yes7 | Yes |
| Estimated maximum throughput2 (per unit) | N/A (automatic scaling) | 500 requests/sec | 1,000 requests/sec | 2,500 requests/sec | 4,000 requests/sec | 4,000 requests/sec |
| Compute isolation | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Self-hosted gateway
The self-hosted gateway feature expands API Management support for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Deploying the self-hosted gateway provides a consistent and unified experience, including on Kubernetes or anywhere with Azure Arc. With the self-hosted gateway feature, organizations can deploy a containerized version of the API Management gateway component to the same environments where they host their APIs, while managing them from an associated API Management service in Azure.
| Price | $- |
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The Developer tier does not offer an SLA. Therefore, it is not suitable for production use. The Developer tier should be used for evaluations, development, and test.
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Yes. The new self-hosted gateway feature enables on-premises as well as multi-cloud deployments. The feature is available for production use in the Premium tier and evaluation purposes in the Developer tier. Please see the product page as well as the pricing section above for more details.
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Customers can scale API Management by adding and removing units. Each unit has certain request processing capacity that depends on the service’s tier. For example, a unit of the Standard tier has an estimated maximum throughput of approximately 2,500 requests per second. As you add or remove units, capacity scales proportionately. For example, two units of the Standard tier provide an estimated throughput of approximately 5,000 requests per second.
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All nodes within the gateway deployment share the location properties and configuration, for example, the custom domain name(s) and assigned APIs. Each gateway deployment corresponds to a gateway resource that can be created either via the Azure portal on the Gateways blade inside an API Management service or programmatically via management API.
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The purpose of the Isolated tier is to enable use of all the features of API Management Premium tier in highly-regulated industries where compute environment isolation is a requirement.
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How long does it take to provision Azure API Management? ›
It can take 30 to 40 minutes to create and activate an API Management service in this tier. To quickly find a newly created service, select Pin to dashboard.
Is API Management necessary? ›However, in this competitive digital world for large enterprises, API management is crucial for driving the digital transformation that every business needs. API management is an additional layer in your layered architecture, providing capabilities including: traffic management. self-service onboarding.
What are the 3 pricing models of Azure? ›Azure Pricing Models
Microsoft offers three main ways to pay for Azure VMs and other cloud resources: pay as you go, reserved instances, and spot instances.
You can create only 20 Consumption Plan API Management services in an Azure subscription. Each Consumption tier service can manage up to 50 APIs.
How long does Apim take to deploy? ›Due to the substantial infrastructure, an API Management instance can take some time to provision. Expect ~45-75 minutes.
What is API Management service Azure? ›Azure API Management is a fully managed service that enables customers to publish, secure, transform, maintain, and monitor APIs.
Do you need Azure API management? ›Azure API Management provides all essential tools required for an end-to-end management of API's. It ensures optimal performance of the API's, tracks and enforces usage, authentication, and more.
Who is responsible for API management? ›Each user has an account on API Manager. API consumers can create applications, manage their registration details, and monitor API use by their applications. Organization administrator - This is the onsite administrator responsible for managing the API consumers and applications in a particular named organization.
How do I choose an API management platform? ›- Look out for required functional capabilities such as security, monitoring, OAS, Swagger, SOAP, REST.
- Developer experience and productivity (UI driven development, CLI tools)
- Features to engage with external application developers to the platform (Developer portal)
The Azure Pricing Calculator can help you understand the costs of moving workloads to the Azure cloud. It estimates Azure pricing once all your data and applications are in Azure.
Which is cheaper AWS or Azure? ›
AWS is up to 5 times more expensive than Azure for Windows Server and SQL Server.
What is required for Azure cost management? ›To enable Cost Management in the Azure portal, you must have confirmed customer acceptance of the Microsoft Customer Agreement (on behalf of the customer) and transitioned the customer to the Azure Plan. Only the costs for subscriptions that are transitioned to the Azure plan are available in Cost Management.
How do I deploy API Management in Azure? ›- On the left, select All resources.
- Click your service instance in the list.
- On the left, select Management API.
- Select the Enable API Management REST API check box.
- At the bottom, under Access token, click Generate.
Azure Resource Manager provider (and classic deployment model) APIs use https://management.core.windows.net/ . For any other resources, see the API documentation or the resource application's configuration in the Azure portal.
What type of APIs can Azure Apim handle? ›Azure API management (Azure APIM) allows you to publish, secure, transform, maintain, and monitor multiple APIs. APIM allows organizations to use their existing back-end services to create complete API programs by creating consistent and modern API gateways.
What does an API manager do? ›Overview. API management refers to the processes for distributing, controlling, and analyzing the APIs that connect applications and data across the enterprise and across clouds.
How do I use API in Azure? ›...
Create an API
- Navigate to your API Management service in the Azure portal and select APIs from the menu.
- From the left menu, select + Add API.
- Select HTTP from the list.
- Select Create.
Examples of popular API management platforms include: Google Apigee API Management Platform. CA Technologies. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform.
Is Azure API Management PaaS or SAAS? ›As a cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Azure API Management abstracts many details of the infrastructure used to host and run your service.
What are products in Azure API Management? ›In Azure API Management, a product contains one or more APIs as well as a usage quota and the terms of use. Once a product is published, developers can subscribe to the product and begin to use the product's APIs.
How do I create Azure API Management? ›
- Navigate to your API Management service in the Azure portal and select APIs from the menu.
- From the left menu, select + Add API.
- Select HTTP from the list.
- Select Create.
- In Solution Explorer, right-click the project and select Publish.
- In the Publish dialog, select Azure and select the Next button.
- Select Azure App Service (Windows) and select the Next button.
- Select Create a new Azure App Service. ...
- Select the Create button.
Can I move an API Management service from one subscription to another? Yes. To learn how, see Move resources to a new resource group or subscription.
How do I publish my Apim developer portal? ›In the Azure portal, navigate to your API Management instance. In the left menu, under Developer portal, select Portal overview. In the Portal overview window, select Publish.
What is API Management example? ›Examples of popular API management platforms include: Google Apigee API Management Platform. CA Technologies. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform.
How do I deploy Azure API Management? ›Deploy API Management service to an additional region
In the Azure portal, navigate to your API Management service and select Locations from the left menu. Select + Add in the top bar. Select the added location from the dropdown list. Select the number of scale Units in the location.
In Azure API Management, a product contains one or more APIs, a usage quota, and the terms of use. After a product is published, developers can subscribe to the product and begin to use the product's APIs.
What does an API manager do? ›Overview. API management refers to the processes for distributing, controlling, and analyzing the APIs that connect applications and data across the enterprise and across clouds.
How do I find my Azure API? ›Open the Azure portal, https://portal.azure.com. On the left, select All resources. Click your service instance in the list. On the left, select Management API.
What is the difference between API gateway provided by Azure API Management and Azure Application Gateway? ›API Management (APIM) is superior to API gateway where it does all the activities of API Gateway and also do additional activities like Service dictionary, Service directory lookup, monitoring services and handle security functionalities to service invocation through SSL certificates.
Can I move Azure resources between subscriptions? ›
You can move Azure resources to either another Azure subscription or another resource group under the same subscription. You can use the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, or the REST API to move resources. To learn more, see Move resources to a new resource group or subscription.
How do I transfer resources from one subscription to another in Azure? ›Go to the Resource groups blade in the Azure portal and then navigate to the particular resource group. Step 2 — Click on Move button and then select Move to another subscription option. Step 3 — Next in the resources to move screen, review the resources that are to be moved over which are all automatically selected.
Can we change subscription in Azure? ›Sign in to the Azure portal. Navigate to Subscriptions and then select your pay-as-you-go subscription. At the top of the page, select Switch Offer. The option is only available if you have a pay-as-you-go subscription and have completed your first billing period.
How do I test Azure portal API? ›- Sign in to the Azure portal, and then navigate to your API Management instance.
- Select APIs > + Add API > HTTP tile.
- In the Create an HTTP API window, select Full.
- Enter Test API for Display name.
- Select Unlimited for Products.
- Ensure that Managed is selected for Gateways.
- Select Create.
Amazon API Gateway publishes a regularly updated Serverless Developer Portal application in the AWS Serverless Application Repository and on GitHub .
How do you make a developer portal? ›- On this page.
- Log in to your portal.
- Create admin users.
- Configure an SMTP server.
- Configure your portal.
- Create API products.
- Send developers to your portal.