Governance for API management - Keep your APIs in check
Welcome to this exciting blog that will help you understand Governance for API management better. As an enterprise, using APIs can have a significant impact on your business processes and productivity. However, as the number of APIs used increase, it's necessary to manage them effectively to ensure they meet the security, compliance and usage requirements of your organization.
That's where Governance for API management comes in. Governance helps in ensuring consistency and compliance of your APIs, user access restriction, monitoring, and reporting. So, let's dive into the different governance solutions available in the market.
Cloud Vendors
AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are the popular cloud vendors that offer API management solutions. Their solutions are cloud-native, scalable and fully managed. Let’s look at some of the benefits of each solution:
AWS
- Cost-effective solution with pay-per-use pricing model
- Easy deployment using the Amazon API Gateway
- Security and compliance features such as integrating with AWS IAM for user access management
- Built-in monitoring and analytics with Amazon CloudWatch
- Serverless capabilities using AWS Lambda functions
- Supports API versioning and publishing API documentation with Amazon API Gateway
Azure
- End-to-end management of APIs using Azure API Management
- Provides analytics and monitoring through Azure Application Insights
- Built-in security and compliance with integrations with Azure Active Directory
- Customizable developer portal templates
- Out-of-the-box policies for enforcing security, caching, logging, and transformation
Google Cloud
- Fully managed and serverless solution using Google Cloud Endpoints
- Provides authentication and authorization using Firebase Authentication and Google Cloud IAM
- Robust monitoring and logging capabilities with Google Cloud Logging
- Supports API versioning and promoting API changes to production seamlessly
- Provides a developer portal for API documentation and sandbox testing
Stand-alone Solutions
Apart from cloud vendors, various stand-alone API governance solutions are available in the market. Stand-alone solutions are ideal if you already have non-cloud infrastructure or prefer an on-premises deployment model, and require a more customizable solution.
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
- Integrates with on-premises and cloud systems
- Provides a full-lifecycle API management solution
- Provides integration with Salesforce through MuleSoft's Anypoint Studio
- Offers a customizable and responsive developer portal and analytics dashboard
Apigee Edge
- Provides a complete API management solution with out-of-the-box capabilities for security, traffic management, and analytics
- Offers seamless integration with on-premises and cloud systems
- A customizable and intuitive developer portal for documentation and sandbox development
- Built on top of Google Cloud Platform
Conclusion
In conclusion, the above-listed solutions are some of the commonly used API governance solutions of different types. The right choice depends on your preferences, budgets, and requirements. With this blog, we hope we provided you enough information about each solution to make an informed decision when it comes to Governance for API management.
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