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Summary

Recommendation	Impact	Category	Automation Available	In Azure Advisor
Migrate API Management services to Premium SKU to support Availability Zones	High	High Availability	Yes	No
Enable Availability Zones on Premium API Management instances	High	High Availability	Yes	No
Azure API Management platform version should be stv2	High	High Availability	Yes	No
Enable auto-scale for production workloads on API Management services	Low	High Availability	No	No
Configure API management service in multiple Azure regions	High	Disaster Recovery	No	No
Enable caching to improve performance in Azure API Management	Medium	High Availability	No	No

Details

Migrate API Management services to Premium SKU to support Availability Zones

Impact: High Category: High Availability

APRL GUID: baf3bfc0-32a2-4c0c-926d-c9bf0b49808e

Description:

Upgrading the API Management instance to the Premium SKU adds support for Availability Zones, enhancing availability and resilience by distributing services across physically separate locations within Azure regions.

Potential Benefits:

Enhanced availability and resilience

Learn More:

Change your API Management service tier

Migrate Azure API Management to availability zone support

ARG Query:

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Azure Resource Graph

// Azure Resource Graph Query
// Find all API Management instances that aren't Premium
resources
| where type =~ 'Microsoft.ApiManagement/service'
| extend skuName = sku.name
| where tolower(skuName) != tolower('premium')
| project recommendationId = "baf3bfc0-32a2-4c0c-926d-c9bf0b49808e", name, id, tags, param1=strcat("SKU: ", skuName)

Enable Availability Zones on Premium API Management instances

Impact: High Category: High Availability

APRL GUID: 740f2c1c-8857-4648-80eb-47d2c56d5a50

Description:

Zone redundancy for APIM instances ensures the gateway and control plane (Management API, developer portal, Git configuration) are replicated across datacenters in physically separated zones, boosting resilience to zone failures.

Potential Benefits:

Improved resilience to zone failures

Learn More:

Ensure API Management availability and reliability

Migrate Azure API Management to availability zone support

ARG Query:

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Azure Resource Graph

// Azure Resource Graph Query
// Find all Premium API Management instances that aren't zone redundant
resources
| where type =~ 'Microsoft.ApiManagement/service'
| where location in~ ("australiaeast", "brazilsouth", "canadacentral", "centralindia", "centralus", "eastasia", "eastus", "eastus2", "francecentral", "germanywestcentral", "israelcentral", "italynorth", "japaneast", "japanwest", "koreacentral", "mexicocentral", "newzealandnorth", "northeurope", "norwayeast", "polandcentral", "qatarcentral", "southafricanorth", "southcentralus", "southeastasia", "spaincentral", "swedencentral", "switzerlandnorth", "uaenorth", "uksouth", "westeurope", "westus2", "westus3", "usgovvirginia", "chinanorth3")
| extend skuName = sku.name
| where tolower(skuName) == tolower('premium')
| where isnull(zones) or array_length(zones) < 2
| extend zoneValue = iff((isnull(zones)), "null", zones)
| project recommendationId = "740f2c1c-8857-4648-80eb-47d2c56d5a50", name, id, tags, param1="Zones: No Zone or Zonal", param2=strcat("Zones value: ", zoneValue )

Azure API Management platform version should be stv2

Impact: High Category: High Availability

APRL GUID: e35cf148-8eee-49d1-a1c9-956160f99e0b

Description:

stv1 instances were deprecated on August 31, 2024. If not migrated to stv2 by then, auto-migration will occur. In some cases, due to technical limitations, services may be shut down in March 2025.

Potential Benefits:

Ensures service continuity

Learn More:

Azure API Management - stv1 platform retirement (August 2024)

Azure API Management compute platform

ARG Query:

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Azure Resource Graph

// Azure Resource Graph Query
// Find all API Management instances that aren't upgraded to platform version stv2
resources
| where type =~ 'Microsoft.ApiManagement/service'
| extend plat_version = properties.platformVersion
| extend skuName = sku.name
| where tolower(plat_version) != tolower('stv2')
| project recommendationId = "e35cf148-8eee-49d1-a1c9-956160f99e0b", name, id, tags, param1=strcat("Platform Version: ", plat_version) , param2=strcat("SKU: ", skuName)

Enable auto-scale for production workloads on API Management services

Impact: Low Category: High Availability

APRL GUID: c79680ea-de85-44fa-a596-f31fa17a952f

Description:

Use API Management with auto-scale for high availability in workloads that experience variable traffic patterns. There are several limitations with auto-scale, so review the documentation to ensure it meets your requirements.

Potential Benefits:

Enhanced availability and resilience

Learn More:

Setting up auto-scale for Azure API Management

ARG Query:

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Azure Resource Graph

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Configure API management service in multiple Azure regions

Impact: High Category: Disaster Recovery

APRL GUID: af4f88cb-35e8-4371-b29e-3a32b1d2f40a

Description:

API Management multi-region deployment will help to reduce request latency perceived by geographically distributed API consumers and improves service availability if one region goes offline.

Potential Benefits:

Improve latency and provides business continuity

Learn More:

Deploy API Management instance to multiple Azure regions

ARG Query:

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Azure Resource Graph

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Enable caching to improve performance in Azure API Management

Impact: Medium Category: High Availability

APRL GUID: badd9a1f-222a-498d-ab84-1f14892b1c1b

Description:

Response caching can significantly reduce latency for API callers and backend load for API providers.

Potential Benefits:

Ensures service continuity and high availability

Learn More:

Add caching to improve performance in Azure API Management

Use an external cache in Azure API Management

ARG Query:

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Azure Resource Graph

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