APIM instances in Azure - Multiple region

Question

I am new to Azure API Management and looking to use the APIM effectivity in our organization. we have multiple API Management instances and wondering if we could combine those to one or more (what are the limitations if we do)... Different region using different APIM instances and i am thinking if we could one APIM instances and multiple gateways with in that one instance so gateways would take traffic based on the region or where backend services are deployed – we have backend services hosted in different regions so would like to keep the API traffic to specific regions due to data policy and latency. is that something can be done using Azure APIM... if yes - what if one gateway goes down in one region then APIM instance should not send the traffic to other gateways in different regions due to data security policy or would it send the same.. Looking around to explore on it in details and appreciate your inputs or if someone has done this in their organization.

Answer 1

This is possible in the Premium Tier where you can deploy to multiple regions (with a limit of 10 per region which can be increased with a support request).

As for data protection, while the built in Traffic Manager profile is just set up for low latency, you could setup a custom traffic manager with the Geographic Routing Method.