That’s meant a change in how Azure offers API Management, with the launch of a consumption-based tier that’s more closely related to how serverless applications operate.

The Azure API Management is a managed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) designed to let companies develop and securely manage APIs across hybrid and multicloud computing environments.

Azure API Management has such a feature. It allows users to specify a schema for the structure of JSON or XML data that’s expected to be exchanged through the API they deploy.

Microsoft recently announced the general availability of new pricing tiers for Azure API Management, Basic v2, and Standard v2. It offers scalability and flexibility to support various development ...

Microsoft has purchased Washington, D.C. startup Apiphany, a maker of an application-programming-interface management platform, which it plans to make available as part of Windows Azure.