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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 2023 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.
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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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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.
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Usage instructions
Customers with existing versions prior to 3.0 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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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.
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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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Request Processing Performance
Processes over 70,000 requests per second per single instance
Stateless Architecture
Implements stateless design enabling true linear scalability without single points of failure or centralized configuration persistence
API Data Aggregation and Transformation
Aggregates, filters, and manipulates data from multiple heterogeneous APIs and non-API services using Backend for Frontend pattern
Security and Traffic Management
Provides rate-limiting, authorization, load-balancing, and throttling capabilities for underlying services
Multi-Protocol Support with Monitoring
Supports multiple protocols with automatic decoding, monitoring, and distributed tracing capabilities
High-Performance API Gateway
Delivers over 144,000 requests per second with sub-5ms P99 latency in benchmark tests
Unified Control Plane Management
Manages Kong Gateway, Kong AI Gateway, Kong Ingress Controller, and Kong Mesh through a single control plane across 17+ AWS regions
Enterprise Security and Compliance
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, SOC 2 Type II attested, PCI DSS 4.0.1 compliant, with support for zero-trust security including authentication, rate limiting, and mTLS
AI Gateway Traffic Governance
Governs LLM traffic across providers including Amazon Bedrock with token budgets and content security policy enforcement
AWS Native Integration
Supports deployment on Amazon EKS, Lambda, and Graviton instances with AWS PrivateLink, AWS Secrets Manager integration, and IAM AssumeRole workload identities
API Lifecycle Management
Control the complete journey of APIs from design through deployment to retirement, including design, exposure, and monitoring capabilities.
API Gateway and Microservices Support
Reliable and scalable gateway enabling microservices architecture with support for multiple protocols and legacy system integration.
Security and Access Control
Implementation of OAuth flows and international API security standards with configurable governance levels for different API exposure models (public, restricted, or internal).
API Testing and Development Environment
Sandbox environment with advanced API mocking capabilities for testing and innovation in isolated conditions.
Developer Portal and API Onboarding
Multi-gateway developer portal with drag-and-drop functionality and low-code interface to simplify API onboarding and consumption.
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