Azure API Center Introduces a Data Plane MCP Server for Enterprise-Wide API and AI Asset Discovery (opens in new tab)

As organizations scale their adoption of MCP-based tooling and AI agents, one challenge keeps surfacing: developers spend too much time figuring out what APIs, tools, and AI assets exist — and then manually wiring up connections to each one. Today, we're excited to announce general availability of a new capability that changes that. What's new Azure API Center now provides a data plane MCP server — a unified enterprise discovery endpoint that gives agents and developer tools a single connecti...