API management refers to the process of documenting, publishing, and supervising the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in a secure and scalable environment.
The API Management services consider a number of features like authentic documentation and sometimes interactive documentation too; Analytics and statistics; flexibility in deployment for public and/or private clouds; engagement for the developers, consumers, or the partners; Sandbox environment; Security; Monetization; Availability; and Support of Legacy Systems.
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