Business Units need to complete certain prerequisites so that APIM team can verify the request and onboard the BUs products. Creating an SPN and AD group is required for pre-onboarding steps.
When smaller business units want to onboard APIs to API Management but do not want to follow the whole onboarding process, they can reduce the process and do not need to build SPN and Azure AD Groups.
Create a service connection in your Azure DevOps project with Service principal authentication. Service principal will be the one which will receive onboarding request.
The billing process is open and flexible to the requirements of business units. Platform among different business units which will enable sharing of resources which will eventually bring down the overall costs.
Azure API management geo-located which will be accessible from internet by a using a global load-balancing product. Azure front door as a global load-balancing solution that support multi-region high availability.
Azure API Management is a fully managed service that enables customers to publish, secure, transform, maintain, and monitor APIs.
Stakeholders coordinate and cooperate with BU stakeholders for onboarding to Shared APIM. Prerequisites will be communicated to BU who is responsible for completing them and also for subscriptions to Shared APIM.
All the elements of the APIM solution are monitored by the Azure Monitor, providing information on the availability and health of each asset as well as a set of performance indicators.