WSO2 API Management Products Enhance AI API Management
In the race to deliver innovative new digital experiences ahead of the competition, enterprises need to embrace the growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), continued mainstreaming of Kubernetes for application delivery, and greater protection against cyber-attacks. WSO2 addresses these demands while increasing developer productivity with the latest releases of WSO2 API Manager and WSO2 API Platform for Kubernetes.
WSO2’s new open-source software API management offerings add the ability to manage AI services as APIs, expand Kubernetes-native API management support, improve productivity for developers producing or consuming APIs, and enhance security and access control. The new capabilities build on the strengths of WSO2’s two open-source API management software offerings: WSO2 API Manager is WSO2’s comprehensive, industry-leading platform for full lifecycle API management, executing 60 trillion-plus transactions each year. WSO2 APK, which launched in 2023, is engineered specifically to leverage the inherent strengths of Kubernetes for API management.
“As organizations seek a competitive edge through innovative digital experiences, they need to invest equally in state-of-the-art technologies and in fostering the productivity of their software development teams,” said Christopher Davey, WSO2 vice president and general manager – API management.
New Functionality for Managing AI Services as APIs
As more organizations use third-party APIs to add AI and large language models (LLMs) to their offerings, they need visibility and control over how their AI/LLM APIs are used. Now through WSO2’s new Egress API Management capability, AI APIs can benefit from full lifecycle API management and governance with built-in support for a range of popular service providers, including OpenAI, Mistral AI and Microsoft Azure OpenAI.
Expanded Kubernetes-Native Support
WSO2 extends its commitment to supporting the exponential growth of microservices and APIs running on Kubernetes with three new developments.
WSO2 API Microgateway is a cloud native, developer-centric decentralized gateway for microservices. In response to customer and market demand, the newest version has been updated to align with the latest WSO2 API Manager release for enhanced scalability while maintaining extreme governance, reliability and security.
Improved Developer Productivity
WSO2 offers new features for improving developers’ productivity whether they are producing or consuming APIs. The newest WSO2 APK release now includes support for subscription rate limit policies, which is already available in WSO2 API Manager. It allows API providers to define and enforce usage quotas and limits for API consumers, so they can subscribe to specific tiers with allocated API request limits.
Enhanced Security and Access Control
Many organizations struggle to maintain consistent security configurations across different environments, potentially exposing vulnerabilities. The WSO2 API Manager control plane (also managing WSO2 APK) now addresses this challenge with support for configuring separate mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication settings for production and sandbox environments.
