Mastering Azure API Management: A Practical Approach to Designing and Implementing an API-Centric Enterprise Architecture

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S. MalvikMastering Azure API Managementhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8011-9_14

14. Self-hosted API Gateway

Sven Malvik¹  

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Fjerdingby, Norway

 

When you call an API in Azure API Management, the request is handled by the managed API gateway component of your instance, which then forwards the requests to a backend web service. In cases where a backend web service is hosted nearby and the traffic is going via the Azure backbone, this is fine because latency is kept to a minimum and security to a maximum. However, there are other cases where backend web services are hosted outside of your Azure tenant and where the traffic to backend web services goes via ...