Summary

APIM is an important platform for enterprise customers who expose web API services to public clients. APIM is provisioned in Azure to protect a variety of backend services deployed as IaaS or PaaS or even on-premises. APIM is also an orchestrator service that implements orchestration of the backend requests, can combine several in one, caches the output, and manages throttling. 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 clients to integrate, test, and monitor the consumption of the service. The variety of the pricing tiers allows 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 public networks. Subscription...