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)