Overview

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Kong Konnect is the unified API platform, delivered as a service, that can manage: Kong Gateway, Kong AI Gateway*, Kong Event Gateway*, Kong Ingress Controller, and Kong Mesh*. A single management console delivers API policy configuration, developer portals, service catalog, tracing, and analytics capabilities.
- Kong Konnect Enterprise is securely hosted in AWS in multiple regions.
- Fully-managed Cloud Gateways deployments support connectivity via VPC Peering or Transit Gateway as well as Route53 and Private Hosted Zones.
- Hybrid deployments fully support EKS, ECS Fargate, and EC2. Native support for AWS Lambda calls.
- Some features may require additional licensing.
Benefits
- Reduce Operational Complexity: Deploy and manage multiple API, Event, and AI gateways, ingress controllers, and service meshes through a unified control plane.
- Federate Governance at Scale: Enforce consistency, compliance, governance and observability at scale while promoting collaboration
- Manage Full API Lifecycle: Make APIs discoverable, consumable, and reusable. And tap into the power of the world's fastest API gateway.
- Implement Robust API Security: Deploy security protocols, authentication policies, access management and operational insights without application changes.
- Accelerate AI Adoption: Run and secure LLM traffic with semantic AI plugins for Kong Gateway. Build production-ready AI applications faster, and monitor LLM usage across providers to optimize your AI operations.
Key Features
- Gateway Manager: Provision and monitor the status of all control planes and data plane nodes in one place.
- AI Manager: Unify LLM access from all popular providers: enforce policies, token budgets, caching, and gain insights on generative AI usage. Mesh Manager: Create, manage, and view Kong Mesh service meshes spanning clusters, clouds, and regions.
- Dedicated Cloud Gateways: Instantly launch fully-managed (SaaS) gateways globally with lower latency and increased security on dedicated infrastructure. Scale elastically and upgrade automatically with no downtime.
- Dev Portal: Engaging, branded, highly customizable developer portals with first-class discovery, documentation, testing, and API registration experiences for internal or external consumption.
- Service Catalog: A single source of truth for your organization's service inventory. Assess operational, OWASP, and security best practices with Scorecards. Advanced Analytics: Gain context-rich and business-critical insights into your entire API and AI landscape to analyze vital metrics and performance. Resolve issues faster with Debugger.
Highlights
- More than just a low-latency API Gateway: Supports proxying events, agents, AI, and API communications and service mesh deployment.
- Support the full API lifecycle: including discovery, documentation, operational readiness. Full automation with support for Terraform, integrated tracing, and analytics.
- Choose how you deploy: with fully managed Cloud Gateways, self-hosted dataplanes, or fully self-managed - with native support for EKS/ECS and AWS networking.
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Pay as you go | Usage metered in Konnect, invoiced monthly. | $0.01 |
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