Establish Shared AI Gateway and Asset Governance
Operate Azure API Management and Azure API Center as shared platform services for runtime mediation, AI asset discovery, consumption controls, assessment evidence, and gateway telemetry across AI workload spokes.
Architecture
Core capabilities
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Provide the shared runtime policy boundary through which approved model, MCP, and A2A API traffic can be authenticated, routed, and governed
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Maintain the central design-time catalog of APIs, MCP servers, agents, skills, and plugins available for governed workload reuse
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Allocate shared model capacity by accountable consumer and prevent one workload from exhausting common backends
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Emit gateway-level usage and policy evidence to Azure Monitor for central platform operation and audit
Supporting capabilities 3
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Apply supported content-safety checks to traffic that crosses the shared gateway boundary
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Extend the shared runtime boundary to approved MCP and A2A APIs when those protocols are used
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Attach agent, skill, and API-conformance evidence to cataloged assets before workloads approve them for reuse