What's a product scope in Azure APIM?

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What's a product scope in Azure APIM?

SeanN 21

Hi,
What's a product in APIM context?
As Clemens Vaster, an Architect at Azure Service Bus, put it in his talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXi5CLjIQ9k, a service is a boundary of scope and ownership.

In traditional non-product based Enterprises, where business process automation is split between departments and teams with in the departments,
what is a product in APIM context?

Shopping cart example: As main areas of an e-commerce example are product catalog , Shopping cart, pricing ,tax, shipping etc. Some may be handled by same team, some may be different teams. What's a product in this?
Thanks!

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JayaC-MSFT 5,606

@SeanN Products in APIM are special containers that contain one or more APIs, group visibility settings and set usage quota and the terms of use. You can leverage this feature to offer/restrict access to your APIs to your developer audience.

Products are how APIs are surfaced to developers.

Please check :

api-management-key-concepts

api-management-howto-add-products

Let me know if this makes sense or helps in this case. If yes, please "accept the answer" and "up-vote" so that it helps others in the community.

SeanN 21 Reputation points

2020-10-08T13:14:00.133+00:00

Thanks for the response. I did go through both the shared links. I couldn't get the clarity.
So what is the decision criteria in scoping the APIs as a product? The term Product is not properly defined in APIM context.
I would like to go back to my shopping cart example:
Shopping cart example: As main areas of an e-commerce example are product catalog , Shopping cart, pricing ,tax, shipping etc. Some may be handled by same team, some may be different teams.
What do you propose in managing these services and how to categorize them into products?
JayaC-MSFT 5,606 Reputation points

2020-10-08T16:49:17.377+00:00
@SeanN A product scope is essentially an extra scope for applying policies to a set of API. Product is basically :

to group API

provide access to only certain APIs based on product grouping

Apply any policy to a product, rather than applying at multiple APIs

It is just an extra policy layer useful to reduce duplication for similar APIs. Now if I take up your example, say Product catalog is something that could be a public API, so that could go to a separate product. In case of pricing or tax or cart APIs, if those require special access or authentication, you can put it in another product.

Does this help?

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