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title: "API Control Plane overview"
description: "Design, publish, version, and govern APIs, and enforce policies across connected gateways from the API Control Plane."
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author: WSO2 API Platform Documentation Team
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# API Control Plane overview

The API Control Plane is where you design, publish, version, and govern APIs. It enforces policies across all connected gateways from a single web UI or from configuration files.

## What you can manage

- [GraphQL APIs](graphql-apis/overview.md): expose a GraphQL backend through the API Platform Gateway.