Discovering APIM services
Previously, you learned how APIM is used internally in Azure to host Cognitive Services. Now, you’ll move on to learning the details of the APIM service and the advantages of using it on modern websites.
The biggest advantage of the APIM service is its various ways of configuration, including security management, products and subscription management, and advanced policy configuration, which incorporates sophisticated algorithms of caching and throttling in the communication between clients and your web APIs. From an architecture view, the APIM service is designed as a façade service to protect the web APIs exposed by your organization. APIM implements orchestration of the request-response logic and allows communicating with multiple backends in a single client request. Moreover, the APIM service provides a rich interface for enterprise customers who want to provide data services for integrations (weather forecasts, stock prices, real-time flight...
