API gateway versus API management

In the preceding section, we discussed how the API gateway hides the actual APIs from its client and then simply redirects the calls to the actual API from these clients. The API management solution provides a complete management system to manage all the APIs of its external consumers. Mostly, all API management solutions (such as Azure API management) provide various capabilities and functionalities, such as:

  • Design
  • Development
  • Security
  • Publishing
  • Scalability
  • Monitoring
  • Analysis
  • Monetization

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