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"I do like the overall performance of the solution."
"Quick and easy way to share a new API design with teams."
"In two years, there was one time the service was down for an hour or so."
"I find the generation of mock services very useful, especially when demonstrating for new consumers."
"It seems quite good so far. It handles our current workload well, and I'm optimistic it can scale effectively as our needs grow."
"The ease of setting up a new solution is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up a new solution and to deploy it to production."
"The initial setup is not that complex, but there are certain challenges."
"The documentation and configuration of APIs."
"Microsoft Azure API Management is a good, comprehensive solution for enterprise implementation."
"The Application Gateway we have found to be the most useful in Microsoft Azure API Management. We have integrated the Microsoft Azure API Management with Application Gateway. Application Gateway is a type of load balancer that we are using for the high availability of our API calls."
"The product gives API gateway-related features, like throttling, which are easy to use and low-code/no-code."
"Azure API Management is an API gateway that can be used for different purposes, for example, to monetize APIs."
"I would like an integrated option to download a Swagger version of the definition."
"The Oracle release cycle is very bad because the patches only update once a year."
"Swagger (OpenAPI Specification) and Blueprint Support"
"They need to work on the third party integrations."
"One of the most important improvements for us would be if it supported the HTTP/3 version and new protocol over a quick connection."
"The cloud deployment performance could be better."
"When you start with Azure API management, you also need to onboard the Azure console and the Azure cloud environment, which comes with a price."
"The portal where we publish the APIs could be improved. Maybe this is because we didn't configure it. It is quite easy to bypass API management because we have a lot of information shared on the portal, where we publish our APIs. I worry there is potential for a security breach in the API publishing. There needs to be more security available on terms of the way we publish them."
"Microsoft Azure API Management could improve the documentation. The documentation feels like marketing information and not sufficient technical information. Your easiest option is to purchase services from a Microsoft partner and this is their marketing."
"The licensing tiers can be misleading."
"An area for improvement in Microsoft Azure API Management is deployment, in particular, the deployment of versions in Oryx. The development to production instance isn't adequate for me and needs to be improved. Microsoft Azure API Management lacks automation, which is another area for improvement."
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Apiary is ranked 36th in API Management while Microsoft Azure API Management is ranked 1st in API Management with 68 reviews. Apiary is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure API Management is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apiary writes "The ability to configure rules to check for consistency has helped". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure API Management writes "Efficiently manages and monetizes API ". Apiary is most compared with SwaggerHub, Oracle API Platform Cloud Service and Apigee, whereas Microsoft Azure API Management is most compared with Amazon API Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Kong Gateway Enterprise and IBM API Connect.
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