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API Management Models
• Proxy model
• You have to provide an API endpoint address exposed on the Internet
• Aka. have an existing, functional API in place and in a production setting.
• The vendor will wrap your API to offer user management and authentication, report
usage statistics, and provide other features such as support for multiple protocols like
SOAP, REST, and JSON.
• Fully-hosted API Model
• Data, software, or other assets provided will be expressed as an API, and the vendor will
deploy all of it within its own infrastructure, allowing you to remotely manage and
administrate access and availability to that API.
• This includes all of the user management, reporting and other features that you would receive
in the proxy model.
• Scalability, multi-tenancy, performance, reliability, ongoing monitoring, and security are
all abstracted away from you.
• No need to have a team of API infrastructure experts available on your staff to monitor
and manage the ongoing usage of your APIs
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