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Shibasis Sengupta
Shibasis Sengupta

Reputation: 649

Why use azure APIM when I have app gateway

I am new to azure and reading through their documentation and some online resources. While I am trying to deploy microservices on azure I can see that I can use APIM. However azure also has app gateway which seems to offer much more functionality. So why should someone use APIM and not gateway directly? Is it only because of cost?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1754

Answers (2)

Stanley Gong
Stanley Gong

Reputation: 12153

This is a supplement for APIM: APIM provides a way to commercialize your APIs, you can charge your API users by subscription or calling Meteres. Details see: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/how-to-monetize-apis-with-azure-api-management/

Upvotes: 2

Martin Brandl
Martin Brandl

Reputation: 58931

The opposite is true, Azure API Management offers much more functionality. However, these are two completely different services:

Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications

Azure API Management is a platform that allows you to manage APIs in a secure and scalable way.

Further reading:

Upvotes: 5

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