
Microsoft Launches AI Gateway Tier for Azure API Management in Public Preview
Microsoft has launched a dedicated AI Gateway tier for Azure API Management, now in public preview in East US 2 and Sweden Central. The new tier reorganizes the control plane around models, MCP servers, and tools rather than APIs, supporting backends from OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, AWS Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI. It offers centralized cost governance, OpenTelemetry telemetry, and a self-service model for application teams, though questions remain about access key blast radius and full lifecycle governance.


