8. APIM

Question 1

What is API Management?

Answer 1

API management is a service hosted in the Azure cloud and is positioned between your APIs and the internet.

Question 2

What is an API gateway?

Answer 2

It is an instance of the API management service

Question 3

What are the benefits of using APIM

Answer 3

Documentation
Limit the rate at which clients can request data
Health monitoring
Analytics
Security
Data exchange using json format

Question 4

What are the pricing tiers and what do they offer?

Answer 4

Developer: Not for prod
Basic: 99.9% SLA. 1000 requests/sec
Standard: 99.9% SLA. 2500 requests/sec. 4 scale units
Premium: 99.95% SLA. 4000 requests/sec. 10 scale units per region
Consumption: Pay as you go

Question 5

What is a scale unit?

Answer 5

A scale unit allows you to scale up a service. The more scale units you have, the more you can scale up the service.

Question 6

What arre the steps to setup API management? (3 steps)

Answer 6

1. Setup a globally unique API management gateway. It must be globally unique within the azure-api.net
2. Register an existing API with the gateway
3. Call the API through the gateway