A bank wants a developer portal, API product bundles with quotas, monetization plans, and analytics across APIs hosted on-premises and in several clouds. Which Google Cloud service is the best fit?
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Answer: A
Apigee is Google Cloud's full API management platform. It provides a developer portal, API products with quotas and access control, monetization, and analytics, and it can manage APIs hosted outside Google Cloud as well as inside it. Cloud Endpoints is a lighter option aimed at adding authentication, monitoring and quotas to APIs it proxies, usually on Google-hosted backends. API Gateway targets serverless backends. URL maps only route HTTP requests and provide no API product management.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. Cloud Endpoints covers authentication, monitoring and quotas for simpler APIs. It does not provide monetization plans or a full developer portal across multi-cloud estates.
- C. API Gateway is designed for serverless backends such as Cloud Run or Cloud Functions. It lacks monetization and the breadth of analytics and portal features the bank requires.
- D. URL maps route traffic to backend services based on host and path. They do not manage API keys, quotas, products or developer onboarding.