Best approach to use APIM

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Best approach to use APIM

Alisha Jain 21

My customer wants to understand how APIM can fit in their design. They have 6-7 services out of which 2 of them are third party services and few are on-prem services. I need help in understanding if APIM is the best approach? Also, Do we have any best practices while using APIM.

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JananiRamesh-MSFT 29,261

Hi @Alisha Jain Thanks for reaching out. API Management Service is an Azure PaaS service that acts as a proxy to your backend APIs (it can be on-prem/cloud). All requests from client applications first reach the API gateway, which then forwards them to respective backend services.

please refer the below docs for more information and basic understanding of APIM concepts
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/api-management-key-concepts
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/api-management-terminology
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/backends
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/api-management/

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Alisha Jain 21 Reputation points

2022-11-29T07:00:19.707+00:00
@JananiRamesh-MSFT Your answer helps. But I want to understand few things:

When should we use APIM instead of Azure Front Door or Azure Load Balancer.

Is there a way to deal with policies from some UI. My client is not that familiar with coding and would like to create policies from a drag and drop kind of tool.

My client wants to know a suitable way to deploy APIM. How many instances should be there per environment?

Also do we have any Azure Service that can help the client manage all the APIs from all the subscription together?
JananiRamesh-MSFT 29,261 Reputation points

2022-12-02T07:47:12.8+00:00

Hi @Alisha Jain Thanks for getting back, this is a different question to the initial thread question. I would recommend starting a new thread with your questions since it would help others with similar questions and easy to search. We would review and happy to answer all your questions there. I hope it makes sense.

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