Systems and methods for providing managed services

A method for providing managed services, comprising:

• responsive to a service request from an application on a client device to a managed service provided by an application gateway service computer residing in an enterprise computer network, starting a management agent of the managed service, the management agent operating within a logical deployment boundary of the managed service and outside of the client device;
• intercepting the service request from the application to the managed service, the intercepting performed by the management agent of the managed service, the management agent embodied on a non-transitory computer memory, wherein the management agent functions as a protection wrapper for the managed service;
• responsive to the service request from the application, making an application programming interface (API) call for the managed service requested by the application, the API call made by the management agent to an API at a dedicated management API layer of the application gateway server computer, the management agent adapted for mediating all communications between the managed service and the dedicated management API layer of the application gateway server computer;
• responsive to the API call for the managed service, communicating, by the API at the dedicated management API layer of the application gateway server computer, a request message for the managed service to the application gateway server computer;
• responsive to the request message for the managed service from the API at the dedicated management API layer of the application gateway server computer, the application gateway server computer sending a control or configuration message for the managed service to the management agent over a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) connection, the control or configuration message including information relating to how the managed service should behave when receiving requests over a network from the application;
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• based at least on the control or configuration message for the managed service that the management agent received from the application gateway server computer over the HTTP connection, the management agent controlling or configuring the managed service such that the managed service functions or behaves as dictated by the application gateway server computer.