The conversation about enterprise AI has shifted. Access to models is no longer the bottleneck. APIs, data pipelines, models, and agents are converging into a single operational fabric — and without a unified control layer, that fabric becomes difficult to govern and increasingly complex to scale.

That reframe matters. If you're planning AI infrastructure with the old mental model — APIs as plumbing, governance as a compliance checkbox — you're building toward the wrong target.

Kong is built for where your infrastructure is going: hybrid, multi-cloud, AI-first. It handles high-throughput traffic with low latency, integrates with your CI/CD pipelines from day one, and extends through a rich plugin ecosystem without requiring custom code for every new requirement.

• - **Hybrid and multi-cloud readiness.** Deploy across public, private, or hybrid clouds without rearchitecting your integration layer every time.
• - **Security that keeps up.** Replace outdated systems that lack modern observability. Kong uses machine learning to identify threats and anomalies in real time.
• - **Lower operational costs.** Eliminate redundant tools and costly legacy contracts. A leaner gateway means less overhead and faster delivery.
• - **Architecture built for what's next.** Microservices, event-driven APIs, service mesh integration — Kong handles them without bolting on additional tooling.

And with Kong AI Gateway, you get a purpose-built layer for governing LLM and AI service traffic — semantic caching, prompt security guardrails, and token usage analytics. Not something you add later. It's already there.

Over 900 enterprise organizations run on Kong. Its platform powers developer experience, enterprise governance, and real-time observability at scale — without the vendor lock-in and cost drag of legacy alternatives.

Kong's platform handles the hard runtime problems natively: zero-trust security, AI Gateway routing, semantic caching, observability, and policy enforcement across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. What this partnership adds is a faster, lower-risk path to actually running it in production.

Persistent Systems is a Kong Certified Implementation Partner with a track record in API ecosystem transformations. Their GenAI Hub-powered migration accelerator is purpose-built for moving organizations off legacy API management platforms — automating the parts that used to take months:

• - **API discovery.** Automated inventory of existing APIs, policies, and configurations. No spreadsheet archaeology required.
• - **Policy mapping.** GenAI-driven translation of legacy policies to Kong equivalents, with validation built in.
• - **End-to-end delivery.** Assessment, migration execution, testing, and rollout — one partner, one methodology, full accountability.
• - **Strategic alignment.** Migration scoped to your actual business goals, not a generic playbook.

Beyond the initial migration, Persistent's engineering-led delivery covers the full implementation lifecycle — including agentic AI workloads, Model Context Protocol-based architectures, and the organizational complexity that comes with large-scale hybrid deployments. The controls Kong makes possible — PII protection, centralized access management, end-to-end observability — Persistent puts in place.

The architecture decisions organizations make in the next year will determine how well they handle AI-driven workloads for the better part of a decade. Legacy API management platforms aren't getting better at any of this. And the cost of deferring — in technical debt, governance gaps, and lost ground — compounds fast.

With Persistent's accelerators and Kong's platform, the migration that used to feel too hard to justify has a clear, lower-risk path.

Ready to get started? Reach out to [partners@konghq.com](mailto:partners@konghq.com)partners@konghq.com.