Azure API Management

Azure API Management ... What is it? 🤔

Azure API Management is a hybrid, multicloud platform designed to manage APIs across various environments. It provides a comprehensive solution for the entire API lifecycle, including creation, deployment, and monitoring. The platform features an API gateway, a management plane, and a developer portal, enabling secure and scalable API management. It helps organizations expose services as APIs, protect and accelerate API traffic, and enhance API discoverability for internal and external users.

What's New ✨

Visit the Azure API Management service changelog for the latest updates and new features. For developer portal updates, visit the developer portal release notes.

Workspaces in API Management are now Generally Available

We are excited to announce the general availability of workspaces in Azure API Management! Workspaces enable organizations to manage APIs more productively, securely, and reliably using a federated approach.

Expanding GenAI Capabilities in Azure APIM for a wide range of LLMs

Announcing new policies to support a wider range of large language models through Azure AI Model Inference API.

Public Preview of Azure APIM Wordpress plugin for customized developer portals

Azure API Management WordPress plugin enables our customers to leverage the power of WordPress to build their own unique developer portal.

Hands-on Labs & Samples for you 💻

AI Gateway (Azure APIM ❤️ OpenAI)

This repository contains a set of experiments on using Generative AI capabilities of Azure API Management with Azure OpenAI and other services.

Azure OpenAI (Node.js) Sample

This sample shows how to manage Generative AI APIs at scale using Azure API Management and Azure OpenAI Service for a simple chatbot.

AI Hub Gateway Landing Zone accelerator

Reference architecture that provides a set of guidelines and best practices for implementing a central AI API gateway to empower various line-of-business units in an organization to leverage Azure AI services.

To get you started

Product Page

Product Overview
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Build APIs

Microsoft API Products
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Documentation

Tutorials
Concept
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Learning Paths & Modules

Learning Paths per Roles
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Combining Gen AI APIs and Azure APIM is a great idea! 🤖

Adding your AI APIs in Azure API Management is a great move as we have new features specifically tailored to help you manage these APIs.

Cost Efficiency with controlled token limits and monitoring.

High Reliability with automatic failovers, enabling load balancers and circuit breakers

Robust Security with isolated user credentials

Enhanced Governance with runtime policies

Azure OpenAI Token Limit Policy 🚫

Azure OpenAI Token Limit policy allows you to manage and enforce limits per API consumer, based on the usage of Azure OpenAI tokens

Azure OpenAI Emit Token Metric Policy 📊

Azure OpenAI enables you to configure token usage metrics to be sent to Azure Applications Insights, providing overview of the utilization of Azure OpenAI models across multiple applications or API consumers.

Load Balancer and Circuit Breaker 💫

Load Balancer and Circuit Breaker features allow you to spread the load across multiple Azure OpenAI endpoints.

Azure OpenAI Semantic Caching policy 🫙

Azure OpenAI Semantic Caching policy empowers you to optimize token usage by leveraging semantic caching, which stores completions for prompts with similar meaning.