Azure API Management
A hybrid, multicloud API management platform that can provide an Azure AI solution's runtime gateway for authenticating, routing, limiting, protecting, and observing model, tool, and agent API traffic.
Capabilities
- AI Runtime Gateway and Access MediationSecureGovern Agents Infrastructure
Uses Azure API Management as the solution's runtime gateway for model, MCP, and A2A APIs, authenticating callers, protecting backend credentials, and applying consistent access and traffic policies at the Azure boundary.
- AI Token Rate Limits and QuotasGovern Agents Infrastructure
Enforces token-per-minute limits and token quotas by API consumer at the API Management runtime boundary so one application, team, or workload cannot exhaust shared model capacity.
- Gateway AI Traffic ObservabilityObserve Agents Infrastructure
Sends language-model token usage and optional prompt and completion records from the API Management runtime boundary to Azure Monitor for gateway-level auditing, usage analysis, and troubleshooting by consumer and model.
- Gateway Content Safety EnforcementSecure Agents Users
Applies Azure AI Content Safety policies at the API Management runtime boundary for supported model, MCP, and A2A traffic, blocking configured harm categories, blocklist matches, and prompt-attack patterns.
- MCP and A2A API Gateway GovernanceSecureGovern Agents Infrastructure
Brings MCP tools and servers and A2A agent APIs into the API Management runtime boundary so their operations, endpoint access, and discovery metadata can be governed with gateway policies.