API Platform
A secure, developer ready API management platform built on Azure API Management (APIM) for publishing, protecting, governing, and operating APIs at scale. API Platform uses APIM Workspaces to give individual API teams federated, self-service ownership of their own APIs and policies, while a central platform team retains gateway infrastructure, identity, and observability standards across environments, giving application teams a consistent path from API definition to production.
Standardize your enterprise API lifecycle leveraging Azure APIM capabilities, including secure VNet integration, policy fragments, Azure Active Directory and Entra ID authentication, workspace based federated API governance, APIOps CI/CD pipelines, AI gateway policies for LLM backed APIs, and Application Insights telemetry, allowing product teams to publish and consume high performance APIs without wrestling with underlying gateway infrastructure.
The operating challenge
API estates become difficult to govern when gateway configuration, identity, policy, deployment, ownership, and observability vary across teams and environments.
What the product provides
API Platform provides reusable gateway patterns, workspace based federated governance, policy controls, lifecycle standards, deployment automation, developer discovery, and operational visibility.
How adoption starts
Start with one gateway or API domain, establish policy and deployment standards, migrate representative services, and expand the paved road incrementally.
Who it is for
Platform and API engineering teams standardizing how APIs are exposed, secured, governed, observed, and consumed across multiple applications and teams.
When not to use it
When a small number of straightforward APIs can be managed adequately with an existing gateway and lightweight delivery processes.