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What do you like best about Azure API Management?

Azure API management is an efficient tool helping us to expose our backend API, load balancing the traffic and also an an api gateway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure API Management?

The only difficulty with it is the difficulty to code it's components as it is very complex for users with less experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure API Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure API management is an efficient tool helping us to expose our backend API, load balancing the traffic and also an an api gateway. It helps us to design our api endpoints, send requests to other urls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Azure API Management?

Microsoft Azure API Management - Take any backend and publish an API in minutes! Transform it, protect it, promote it and monitor it in the cloud.

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Microsoft Azure API Management - Take any backend and publish an API in minutes! Transform it, protect it, promote it and monitor it in the cloud.


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Kshitij D.
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Kshitij D.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Azure Api Management Review"
Azure API management is an efficient tool helping us to expose our backend API, load balancing the traffic and also an an api gateway.
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3.5 out of 5
"Useful and Flexible"
I like the high degree of flexibility it offers.
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Janusz N.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Azure API Management - it making it job to be API Management"
It cover all need to API Management supppsoe to be: - mange api's - scalability - dev expitenence - advenced policy setup - dev portal - supp...
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Gajan  A.
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Sr Azure Cloud Developer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Azure API Management?

In the realm of cutting-edge businesses, API architectures are embraced to fuel expansion. Enhance efficiency across hybrid and multi-cloud setups by centralizing API management in one place. Azure API Management stands out as a key tool in the API Gateway category within tech stacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure API Management?

Users have encountered difficulties navigating the intricate Azure API Management configuration, facing a learning curve tied to its features. Furthermore, there have been raised concerns about pricing, with users expressing the need for clearer and more predictable cost structures. It's important to note that individual experiences may differ, and feedback could have evolved since my last update in January 2022. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure API Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure API Management addresses diverse challenges in API development and management, handling aspects such as API Governance, Security, Analytics, Developer Experience, and Monetization. It ensures adherence to standards, provides security features, offers insights into usage patterns, simplifies consumption, and enables organizations to monetize APIs, ultimately benefiting users, developers, and organizations by enhancing control over digital assets and streamlining development processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure API Management?

It helps to manage and publishing APIs in more scalable, reliable and secured ways. All essential features and tools are provided in it for management of APIs. It helps in monitoring the health of API’s. User can easily identify error regarding API’s. It also helps in providing insights into API’s. It helps in optimizing the traffic flow of API’s. It helps in fulfilling the requirements of compliance and security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure API Management?

While comparing it with other providers, they are offering more options, capabilities and tools. It has complex pricing module. It may be difficult to integrate with outside services instead of azure. It on-premises services should be improved more. Administrator options for generating bills should be provided in it so that bills can be generated easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure API Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps in selecting customers, employees, partners to expose to export your services and data as it is providing proper authorization and encryption. It helps in building applications faster to immediately deliver value services to customers. It helps in creating customizable portals for your API’s. it also helps in sharing API’s with external teams, internals teams, customers, partners etc. your API’s are kept behind single domain or static IP which helps protecting them with IP filtering, Tokens or Keys. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Janusz N.
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Senior IT Manager / DevOps Tech Lead/ Azure DevOps, Cloud Engineer | Data & Analytics
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What do you like best about Azure API Management?

It cover all need to API Management supppsoe to be:

- mange api's

- scalability

- dev expitenence

- advenced policy setup

- dev portal

- support on cloud and hybrid setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure API Management?

Better control of dev portal about permisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure API Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mange muliptle api's Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Khushbu C.
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What do you like best about Azure API Management?

API definitions, pipeline deployment, easy to integrate with other azure resources, inbuilt caching and extended support for external cache, inbound & outbound policies to set or remove headers, alter requests and responses. Authorization, rate limiting & other secure policies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure API Management?

Limited inline custom code syntax for policies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure API Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Expose APIs from http trigger functionApps. Return session Cached response and limit calls to functionapps. Auth policies & rate limiting calls to APIs to prevent DDOS attack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure API Management?

I like the high degree of flexibility it offers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure API Management?

Some network errors leading to downtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure API Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Allows me to work on different microservices simultaneously and choose the most suitable technologies for my tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Martand S.
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Products used within Microsoft Azure Web: Azure App Service, Azure API Management, Azure Web Apps
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure Web?

Amazing collection of PaaS & IaaS services. The best application is web apps &web api management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure Web?

Until now have not faced any issue or feature to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure Web solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using Azure web for website development in .Net platform & CI/CD (Azure devops) using visual studio 2017 and API management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dheeraj Kumar B.
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What do you like best about Azure API Management?

Integration with respective app services, web apps, logic apps, function and expose the same to the client side with minimal vector coding and path changes.

Integration of Azure active directory with JWT token integration for security purposes is one of the big pluses.

Easier to deploy with YAML file integration in different environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure API Management?

Till now, it made my work easy. So I did not find any dislikes. I could accomplish what I wanted with Azure APIm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure API Management:

If anyone wants to move their solution to azure, azure APIM will make it easy in JWT integration, routing, mapping, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure API Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hiding the original URLs of the backend services and making them secure.

Routing of different services with different URLs and easy integration of APIs.

Mapping required params for necessary API calls .

Easy deployment of API Management, so need not worry about the time factor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sally B.
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What do you like best about Azure API Management?

The entire system is very stable, with no problems with crashes or bugs. It is planned for vendors and software developers. The benefits I encountered while using this system are that It offers a variety of ways to produce and handle Web APIs for applications. Its capabilities help to build and publish APIs for professionals and app developers. The best thing is that It has different programming languages, which include Java, C, C++ and more. Users may be able to create APIs on-site or on the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure API Management?

As it is planned for developers to build APIs, it is costly for small teams and organizations. The lack of robustness is a major issue, including the awareness of how the Azure software works, with costs that are difficult to sustain over a long period of time, primarily monthly. Another major drawback is Varieties of APIs are found in it, but some of them are not lightweight and compliant with other applications. It is difficult to incorporate with the services of other apps. the introduction of other applications are not consistent with this system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure API Management:

Over all the Azure API application is a support application under the umbrella of Mobile Applications. It offers you built-in tools to interact with APIs effortlessly including built-in support for metadata using swagger, along with support for API specification on the portal. The users can evaluate all its aspects including its drawbacks and limitations and can make best uses out of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure API Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure API Management is a consistent, stable and flexible way to upload, ingest and control APIs running on the Microsoft Azure platform. Azure API Management offers all the necessary tools for the end-to - end management of the APIs. Ensures maximum performance of the API, monitors and enforces use, authentication, and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

katerina G.
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DMTS, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
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What do you like best about Azure API Management?

It helps the user to publish, maintain and transform their APIs securely. It helps the user to maintain and monitor the health of APIs. It helps to identify errors and configure correcting. It helps to create and manage roles of users and define usage and policies of end-to-end APIs. It is providing a central place for the management of thousands of APIs over multiple platforms. It is providing a mechanism of access controls and authentication to ensure the security of APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure API Management?

If comparing it with other API management platforms they are offering varieties of capabilities, tools, features and options but then they are lacking the ease of interface. Various azure integrations are provided in it but it should provide integration with other external services. It also needs improvements in their on-premises services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure API Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Developers will be able to work on multiple microservices at a time. They will be able to update and schedule microservices individually by their own choice. Developers are providing various testing capabilities and documentations in it. It helps in exporting your data and services. Applications can build faster by using it. Customizable portals can be created through it for APIs. You can share APIs with various internal and external teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Natalie C.
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Vice President of Sales
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What do you like best about Azure API Management?

User is able to publish APIs through it in more secure ways. It is easy to manage security in it with its policies. It helps in identifying errors and bugs more easily. Roles regarding the user can be easily created and managed thorugh it. it is provided with all essential tools and features for management of APIs. It is providing several policies and usage regarding APIs. Multilayered protection for APIs is provided in it. It provides proper insights and visualization for APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure API Management?

It is offering easy user interface as compared to other API management services but it is lacking some capabilities and features that should be updated in it. Some improvements and upgradations are needed in its on-premises facilities. It should provide various helpful options regarding administrations so that they will be able to generate bills more easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure API Management:

I would highly recommended Azure API Management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure API Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Optimizing traffic flow is easy through it. It facilitates developers to work on various microservices with their own choices. User will be able to export their services to different employees, customers, partners and other professionals. User can create and customize various portals through it. It helps in developing secure API based applications with encryption and two-factor authentication. It helps in keeping your APIs behind a single IP or domain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.