# Microsoft Azure REST API Guidelines

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/restful-services/azure-rest-guidelines/  
**Provider:** RESTful Services — https://apis.io/providers/restful-services/  
**Documentation:** https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-practices/api-design

Microsoft Azure REST API Guidelines is one of 5 APIs that [RESTful Services](https://apis.io/providers/restful-services/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Best Practices, Guidelines, and Microsoft. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Microsoft's official REST API design guidelines for Azure services, covering resource naming, versioning, HTTP semantics, long-running operations, and error responses.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-practices/api-design

## Other RESTful Services APIs (4)

- [Standards.REST](https://apis.io/apis/restful-services/standards-rest/)
- [Zalando RESTful API and Event Guidelines](https://apis.io/apis/restful-services/zalando-rest-guidelines/)
- [AWS API Gateway](https://apis.io/apis/restful-services/aws-api-gateway/)
- [Google Apigee API Management](https://apis.io/apis/restful-services/google-apigee/)

## Tags

Best Practices, Guidelines, Microsoft

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