Azure Networking
A collection of Azure Networking APIs for managing virtual networks, load balancers, application gateways, and network security.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Azure Networking the way a machine reads it — 78 machine-readable artifacts across 25 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Azure Networking scores 53.4/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 31/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
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How we profile Azure Networking
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Azure Networking. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 25
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
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.
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Postman Collections 8
A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
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Open Collections 12
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONAzure Networking Azure Load Balancer API
OPEN COLLECTIONAzure Networking Azure Virtual Networks API
OPEN COLLECTIONAzure Networking Azure Load Balancer Backend Address Pools Virtual Network Peerings API
OPEN COLLECTIONAzure Virtual Network REST API
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Microsoft Azure Networking Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Spectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Azure Networking API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 24
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
AddressSpace
JSON SCHEMABackendAddressPool
JSON SCHEMABackendAddressPoolListResult
JSON SCHEMADhcpOptions
JSON SCHEMAErrorResponse
JSON SCHEMAFrontendIPConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAInboundNatRule
JSON SCHEMALoadBalancer
JSON SCHEMALoadBalancerListResult
JSON SCHEMALoadBalancerLoadBalancingRuleListResult
JSON SCHEMALoadBalancerProbeListResult
JSON SCHEMALoadBalancingRule
JSON SCHEMAOperation
JSON SCHEMAOperationList
JSON SCHEMAOutboundRule
JSON SCHEMAProbe
JSON SCHEMAResource
JSON SCHEMAResourceList
JSON SCHEMASubnet
JSON SCHEMASubnetListResult
JSON SCHEMAVirtualNetwork
JSON SCHEMAVirtualNetworkListResult
JSON SCHEMAVirtualNetworkPeering
JSON SCHEMAVirtualNetworkPeeringListResult
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 24 ·
JSON Structure 1
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Microsoft Azure Networking Structure
JSON STRUCTURESecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Azure Networking — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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