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COMMUNITY EDITION. Effortlessly adopt microservices & reduce operational costs with an ultra-performant API Gateway
Overview
KrakenD is a simple-to-use Enterprise-grade API Gateway built to accelerate your microservices adoption, provide better response times, and reduce the bandwidth consumed. KrakenD aggregates, filters, and manipulates data (Backend for Frontend) from multiple and heterogeneous APIs and non-API services. It provides a single API to your products (web, mobile apps, devices, services) with only the needed data.
KrakenD scales linearly without any problem thanks to its stateless design. It also secures, throttles, caches, and monitors your underlying services. Some of the features are rate-limiting, authorization, load-balancing, proxy, monitoring, tracing, multi-protocol, automatic decoding, and many other features.
Highlights
- Ultra-high-speed of processing: +70.000K requests per second by one single instance.
- Lower operational costs: high-performance results in lower resource consumption, allowing you to save costs.
- True linear scalability: a stateless design that prevents a Single Point of Failure and avoids coordination or centralized configuration persistence.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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AmazonLinux Amazon Linux 2 AMI
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Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time.
Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate your infrastructure costs.
If you are an AWS Free Tier customer with a free plan, you are eligible to subscribe to this offer. You can use free credits to cover the cost of eligible AWS infrastructure. See AWS Free Tier for more details. If you created an AWS account before July 15th, 2025, and qualify for the Legacy AWS Free Tier, Amazon EC2 charges for Micro instances are free for up to 750 hours per month. See Legacy AWS Free Tier for more details.
Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
t2.medium Recommended | $0.10 |
t2.micro | $0.05 |
t3.micro | $0.10 |
t3.2xlarge | $0.40 |
c5.18xlarge | $3.60 |
t3.medium | $0.10 |
t2.nano | $0.05 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.20 |
t3.nano | $0.10 |
c4.xlarge | $0.20 |
Dimensions summary
You pay by the hour for a ready-to-run virtual machine with the software pre-installed. The single pricing structure is the hourly software rate, which changes based on the EC2 instance type you choose. Instance types span the t2, t3, m3, m4, m5, c3, c4, and c5 families, ranging from small sizes like nano and micro up to larger sizes like 18xlarge. Larger instances carry higher hourly rates because they provide more compute and memory. You add standard AWS infrastructure charges on top. There is no upfront commitment, and you can stop billing by stopping the instance.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
KrakenD Community Edition is open source under the Apache 2.0 license, so the software itself carries no license cost. You pay for the pre-configured virtual machine by the hour, plus the underlying AWS infrastructure charges for the EC2 instance you run.
The hourly rate meters running time on the EC2 instance. When you stop the instance, software billing stops. Stopped instances may still incur AWS storage fees for attached volumes, but the hourly software rate applies only while the instance runs.
Instance type changes the compute and memory you get, not the feature set. KrakenD runs on minimal resources and stays stateless with no database. Larger instances handle higher throughput and burst traffic, since your hardware sets the limits on endpoints and parallel queries.
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Additional details
Usage instructions
Customers with existing versions prior to 2.0 should read this: https://www.krakend.io/docs/configuration/migrating/
Usage
Choose the server size according to your planned usage: https://www.krakend.io/docs/deploying/server-dimensioning/ KrakenD will start on port 8080 with an empty configuration.
You can check if the server is listening in http://yourinstance.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8080/__health
- To apply your own API rules inject your configuration in /etc/krakend/krakend.json.
- The configuration file can be generated manually or using https://designer.krakend.io
- Documentation: https://www.krakend.io/docs/overview/introduction/
Manual setup example:
- SSH your machine: ssh ec2-user@your-public-amazon-dns -i yourkey.pem
- Go to https://designer.krakend.io and visually generate your endpoints
- Save the generated krakend.json file and copy it to /etc/krakend/krakend.json (needs sudo)
- Restart the krakend service with: sudo systemctl restart krakend
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Support
Vendor support
This version of KrakenD is a ready-to-use AMI running the open-source version of KrakenD, and is NOT the KrakenD Enterprise version, and neither includes any of its support or service plans.
The open-source support options can be found in the URL: https://www.krakend.io/support/ Commercial support plans for the open-source version might be purchased separately.
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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