[? ALICIA: ?] Hi.
I'm [? Alicia, ?] and today I'm super
excited to talk about Apigee X, which
is the latest release of Google Cloud's Apigee API Management
Platform.
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Businesses have been executing on digital transformation
strategies for many years.
However, the COVID-19 outbreak drastically
changed consumer behavior and work environments,
forcing businesses to quickly adapt and accelerate
their efforts to meet new digital demands,
such as delivering a connected, seamless digital experience,
automating as many manual processes as possible,
operating anywhere with distributed remote workforce,
and unlocking new revenue streams.
In order to meet these new demands,
organizations should really think
beyond digital transformation and strive
to achieve digital excellence.
APIs are key to driving digital excellence.
They enable companies to deliver seamless experiences,
modernize applications, abstract the complexity of legacy
systems, and unlock new revenue streams.
As enterprises rapidly scale and globalize
their digital transformation programs,
their underlying API programs follow correspondingly.
Therefore, businesses need a very comprehensive and powerful
API management platform to support the new digital needs.
Apigee X helps businesses accelerate and globalize
their API programs to achieve digital excellence.
It allows them to deliver secure, high-performing,
reliable APIs across the globe with an integrated approach
to artificial intelligence, web application firewall, identity
management, content delivery network,
and other advanced Cloud capabilities.
Let's take a closer look.
Apigee X comes with out of the box integration
with Cloud CDN, which leverages the same network that Google
uses to host its apps used by billions of users.
This allows you to deploy it and deliver high-performing APIs
across 24 regions and 73 zones with caching
across 93 points of presence.
It provides multiple layers of security for your APIs,
eliminating the need to integrate
with third-party solutions for web application firewall
and identity management needs.
Apigee X is powered by Google Cloud's industry-leading AI.
You can now apply machine intelligence
to automate trivial tasks related to API operations
and API security so that you can really focus on business
critical activities.
Last but not least, it provides the flexibility
to store data in the region of your choice,
gives you more control on encrypted data,
and ensures that your business adheres
to all regulatory and compliance requirements.
Let's see a quick demo of how this works.
Apigee X provides self-service capabilities
to create your own orgs and environments.
To create an org, simply click Edit,
select the Analytics Hosting Region,
and enter the encryption key.
After configuring the network and runtime parameters,
you can now create an environment
by providing the required details.
For the purpose of this demo, I created a Hello World proxy,
added a few developers, and registered a front-end app.
If I try to access the proxy without a key, it fails.
To further protect this proxy with Cloud Armor,
you can create a new rule or apply an existing rule
to the API proxy.
When I try to access the same proxy again without a key,
you'll see a change in the error message generated
by Cloud Armor.
Now let's see how to apply Cloud CDN capabilities to your APIs
for enhanced caching and performance.
I created a very simple CDN policy
and applied it to the load balancer.
In addition, I added cache control
so that Cloud CDN knows to cache the responses.
When I access the proxy from US West,
the call is executed in about 10 milliseconds.
If I take the same call and execute it
from a VM located in Europe West,
the response time for the first attempt
is about 215 milliseconds.
However, because of the enhanced caching,
the response time for the second attempt
goes down to 16 milliseconds.
This was just a quick preview of Apigee X.
In summary, Apigee X allows you to deliver
secure, high-performing, reliable APIs
across the globe with an integrated approach
to artificial intelligence, web application firewall, identity
management, content delivery network,
and other advanced Cloud capabilities.
Now, it's your turn to try it out and get
started by following the links in the description below.
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