Google Cloud Endpoints
Google Cloud Endpoints is a distributed API management system that enables developers to create, deploy, secure, monitor, and manage APIs built on Google Cloud. It provides tools for API proxy management, traffic routing, authentication, and comprehensive logging and monitoring, making it easier…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2013
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Google Cloud Endpoints was created to address the significant overhead and complexity involved in exposing, securing, and managing APIs for applications, particularly those deployed on Google App Engine and later across various Google Cloud services. Before Endpoints, developers had to manually implement critical API concerns such as authentication, authorization, quota management, logging, and monitoring for each API, leading to boilerplate code, inconsistencies, and security challenges.
- Platforms
- Google Cloud Platform (Google App Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud Functions, Google Cloud Run)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Organizations building API-driven applications on Google Cloud Platform
- Companies seeking managed API security and monitoring for their microservices