Azure API Management

Azure API Management is a fully managed service from Microsoft Azure that enables organizations to publish, secure, transform, maintain, and monitor APIs. It acts as a gateway between backend services and API consumers, providing features like rate limiting, authentication, caching, and request/response transformation. It helps create consistent and modern API gateways for existing backend services.

Also known as: APIM, Azure APIM, Microsoft API Management, Azure API Gateway, Azure APIManagement

Why learn Azure API Management?

Developers should use Azure API Management when building scalable API ecosystems that require centralized management, security, and analytics. It's ideal for microservices architectures, legacy system modernization, and B2B integrations where you need to expose APIs to external partners or internal teams with controlled access and monitoring.

Learning Resources

• docs: Azure API Management documentation
• course: Microsoft Learn: Manage APIs with Azure API Management
• video: Azure API Management tutorial on YouTube
• course: Pluralsight: Azure API Management Fundamentals
• book: API Management in Azure: A Practical Guide (Book)