Develop APIs faster, smarter, and more securely

Transform your API development journey with developer-friendly tools and services.

API lifecycle stages

API lifecycle excellence with Microsoft

Azure API Center

Azure API Center helps ensure your APIs meet organizational standards by allowing you to register and validate your API definitions against organizational style guides.

Azure API Management

Design REST APIs, import APIs from Azure services, or expose backends as GraphQL APIs. Quickly mock APIs to accelerate and parallelize client and backend development and enable collaboration across teams.

Dev Proxy

Quickly test your API design ideas by creating mock APIs, testing them with apps, simulating CRUD operations, and securing APIs with Microsoft Entra ID.

TypeSpec

TypeSpec is an extensible API design language designed for "API First" web service development. TypeSpec docs serve as the "source of truth" for web services and are used to generate and update all artifacts related to a service, including OpenAPI, documentation, client and server stubs, relieving developers of the burden of coordinating changes between those artifacts. TypeSpec is built by Microsoft and supported by the community.

Featured products

Unleash the power of your APIs with our developer-friendly products

Azure API Management

Azure API Management is an established, fully managed Azure service that enables developers to efficiently and effectively manage APIs throughout their lifecycle, across cloud and on-premise environments. It provides an API gateway, a developer portal, and administrative controls to streamline and enhance API design, development, publishing, security, and monitoring.

Azure API Center

Azure API Center offers a centralized inventory solution for API discovery, reusability, and governance, making it easier for developers to manage APIs across different environments and stages of their lifecycle. Increase developer's productivity by streamlining the discovery process, making it an attractive tool for developers looking to maintain high-quality and compliant APIs efficiently.

Dev Proxy

Dev Proxy is a command-line tool that helps developers build and test resilient applications by simulating API behaviors like errors, delays, and rate limiting. It works across platforms and tech stacks, allowing developers to identify and fix issues early, ensuring their applications are robust and reliable.

APIs in Action

APIs in Action

Explore the latest trends and best practices in the Microsoft API landscape.

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Featured blogs

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AI Gateway in Azure API Management Is Now Available in Microsoft Foundry (Preview)

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Azure API Management Your Auth Gateway For MCP Servers

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Build. Secure. Launch Your Private MCP Registry with Azure API Center