Azure API Management (APIM) is a powerful platform to manage, secure, and monitor APIs. When serving as a Managed Control Plane (MCP) server for AI agents, forwarding the actual user identity instead of a generic service account is critical. Doing so enhances security, auditability, and compliance, while giving your AI agents better context about who is making requests.

In the ever-changing landscape of cloud computing services, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud stand out as three of the major players...