Summary

APIM is an important platform for enterprise customers who expose web API services to public consumers. APIM is provisioned in Azure and a variety of backend services are deployed as IaaS, PaaS, or even on-premises. APIM is also an orchestrator service that implements the management of backend requests, can combine several requests in one, caches the output, and throttles requests from consumers. The support of modern authentication algorithms allows the service to securely protect the backend and manage networking integration.

APIM exposes the developer portal, which helps API customers integrate, test, and monitor the consumption of the service. The variety of pricing tiers allows for deploying affordable instances and using consumption-based serverless instances for low-load scenarios. The APIM service is the perfect choice for companies that make money from selling historical data, forecasts, machine learning services, and many other services that communicate through...