Creating an instance of API Management is very simple: you just have to define the name of the instance (that becomes the root URL of API Gateway), the organization name (your company), the email of the admin user (to receive notifications from the API Management), the Azure location (in terms of subscription, resource group, and region) and, of course, the pricing tier:
As you can see in the preceding screenshot, there are five pricing tiers for API Management:
- Developer: This is the tier for developer and test purposes. You should only use it for test and evaluation purposes, and not in production.
- Basic, Standard, and Premium: These are the production tiers with a fixed monthly price. Every tier has a different capacity (scale units, caching, and number of calls per second) and, of course, a different price.
- Consumption: This is the serverless...