Item: Azure API Management
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for letting teams access synchronous services and microservices both for internal and external network users. It's extremely simple to make an API available. We can build infrastructure and APIs using Terraform.

Pros and Cons

Easy commissioning of APIs.
Great policies to control access.
Easy mock services for testing.

We cannot automate the network infrastructure easily. At least we had issues with creating end to end APIM using Terraform.

Return on Investment

We have one-stop access to all services.
We can stop DDoS, Man in the middle attack, etc.

Alternatives Considered

Apigee Edge

Apigee is by Google and seems to be promising. The cost seems high though. With Azure, we do not have to make any special purchases. CapEx vs OpEx! But, Apigee could be more environment independent compared to Azure APIM. The promise of speed by Apigee is also better compared to Kong on Azure APIM.

Key Insights

Do you think Azure API Management delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Azure API Management's feature set?

Yes

Did Azure API Management live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Azure API Management go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Azure API Management again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Zoom

Likelihood to Recommend

The range of policies that enable the APIs to loosely couple it with security, rate limit, retry, etc. are good. We can easily tie authentication mechanisms to external and other internal services without having to modify the backend.

Easy APIM

Overall Satisfaction with Azure API Management