API Management Tools

Cloud Endpoints

  • Distributed API management through API console
  • Used to expose our API using RESTful interface
  • It is an easy to deploy proxy in front of the back-end services
  • We can control access and validate calls with JSON Web Tokens and Google API keys
  • We can generate cloud libraries

ApiGee Edge

  • Focuses on business problems: rate limiting, quotas, analytics
  • Contains monetization and developer portal
  • The backend services does not need to be in GCP (can be used for legacy applications and cloud migrations)