Overview
Apigee is Google Cloud's native API management platform designed to build, manage, and secure APIs at scale. It provides comprehensive tools for the complete API lifecycle, from design and development through deployment, monitoring, and monetization. Apigee supports multiple architectural styles including REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and gRPC, offering flexibility for diverse use cases and environments.
Key Features
API Lifecycle Management
- Create and manage API proxies with support for REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and gRPC architectures
- Unified API catalog through API hub for consolidating API specifications built or deployed anywhere
- Developer portals (integrated or Drupal-based) for API product publishing and developer onboarding
- Built-in and customizable analytics dashboards for monitoring API quality and performance
Security & Compliance
- Advanced API Security with ML-based abuse detection to identify critical API threats
- Automated detection of undocumented and unmanaged APIs
- Security assessment of managed APIs with recommended remediation actions
- 50+ configurable policies for traffic control, rate limiting, transformation, and mediation
- Support for custom scripts and code extensions to enhance security functionality
AI-Powered Development
- Gemini Code Assist integration for generating OpenAPI specifications from natural language
- AI-assisted API proxy and mock server generation to accelerate development
- Autogenerated recommendations for API governance and quality improvements
- Duplicate API prevention and improved enterprise context support
Deployment Flexibility
- Hybrid and multicloud deployment options through Apigee hybrid
- Deploy APIs in your own data center or public cloud of choice
- Containerized runtime services managed in Kubernetes clusters