# Azure Networking **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-azure-networking/ **Website:** https://portal.azure.com **APIs profiled:** 25 A collection of Azure Networking APIs for managing virtual networks, load balancers, application gateways, and network security. ## Kin Score — 46.1 / 100 (developing) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 46.1). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 64.8 | | Contract Quality | 56.1 | | Governance | 9.8 | | Contract Governance | 9.8 | | Operational Transparency | 36.8 | | Developer Ergonomics | 54.8 | | Commercial Clarity | 43.4 | | Access Clarity | 43.4 | ## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | no | | OpenAPI Examples | no | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (25) - **Azure Load Balancer API** — Distribute traffic across multiple virtual machines and services with Azure Load Balancer. - **Azure Application Gateway API** — Web traffic load balancer with application-level routing and SSL termination. - **Azure Network Security Groups API** — Control network traffic to and from Azure resources with security rules. - **Azure VPN Gateway API** — Establish secure cross-premises connectivity between Azure and on-premises networks. - **Azure Traffic Manager API** — DNS-based traffic load balancer for distributing traffic globally. - **Azure ExpressRoute API** — Create private connections between Azure datacenters and on-premises infrastructure. - **Azure Firewall API** — Cloud-native network security service with built-in high availability. - **Azure DNS API** — Host DNS zones and manage DNS records using the Azure DNS REST API. Supports creating, updating, and deleting public DNS zones and record sets for domain name resolution within ... - **Azure Private DNS API** — Manage private DNS zones for name resolution within Azure virtual networks. Azure Private DNS provides a reliable and secure DNS service to manage and resolve domain names in a ... - **Azure Front Door API** — Global load balancer and application delivery network that provides fast, reliable, and secure access to web applications. Azure Front Door offers layer 7 load balancing, SSL of... - **Azure DDoS Protection API** — Manage DDoS protection plans that provide enhanced DDoS mitigation capabilities for Azure Virtual Network resources. Azure DDoS Protection provides countermeasures against sophi... - **Azure Network Watcher API** — Monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into network performance and health in Azure. Network Watcher provides tools for packet capture, connection troubleshooting, NSG flow logs, ... - **Azure Bastion API** — Fully managed PaaS service that provides secure and seamless RDP and SSH connectivity to virtual machines directly through the Azure portal over TLS. Azure Bastion is deployed i... - **Azure NAT Gateway API** — Simplify outbound-only internet connectivity for virtual networks. When configured on a subnet, all outbound connectivity uses specified static public IP addresses. NAT Gateway ... - **Azure Private Link API** — Access Azure PaaS services and customer-owned services over a private endpoint in your virtual network. Azure Private Link eliminates data exposure to the public internet by kee... - **Azure Virtual WAN API** — Networking service that provides optimized and automated branch-to-branch connectivity through Azure. Virtual WAN brings together networking, security, and routing functionaliti... - **Azure Web Application Firewall API** — Cloud-native web application firewall service that provides centralized protection for web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities. Azure WAF can be deployed with ... - **Azure Networking Backend Address Pools API** — Operations for managing backend address pools that define the group of resources to receive load-balanced traffic. - **Azure Networking Load Balancer Probes API** — Operations for managing health probes that monitor the health status of backend resources. - **Azure Networking Load Balancers API** — Operations for creating, updating, deleting, and listing Azure Load Balancer resources. - **Azure Networking Load Balancing Rules API** — Operations for managing load balancing rules that define how traffic is distributed to backend pool members. - **Azure Networking Operations API** — Operations operations - **Azure Networking Subnets API** — Operations for managing subnets within a virtual network, including creation, configuration, and delegation. - **Azure Networking Virtual Network Peerings API** — Operations for creating and managing peering connections between virtual networks. - **Azure Networking Virtual Networks API** — Operations for creating, updating, deleting, and listing Azure Virtual Networks within subscriptions and resource groups. ## Agentic access (1) - **Microsoft Azure Networking Agentic Access** — 28 operations · 11 acting ## Security (2) - **Microsoft Azure Networking Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme - **Microsoft Azure Networking Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC ## Plans (1) - **Microsoft Azure Networking Plans Pricing** ## Tags Azure, Cloud, Infrastructure, Microsoft, Networking --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-azure-networking/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.