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What is a MCP Gateway? The Missing Piece for Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Learning CenterJanuary 21, 2026

AI agents are spreading across organizations rapidly. Each agent needs secure access to different Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Authentication becomes complex. Scaling creates bottlenecks. The dreaded "too many endpoints" problem emerges. You face a classic AI infrastructure headache. The…

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KAi Just Got a Major Upgrade, Powered by the New Kong Konnect MCP Server

Product ReleasesJanuary 21, 2026

If you've used KAi before, you'll notice the difference immediately. The enhanced version has deeper access to your Konnect environment and new tools for debugging, analytics, and configuration management: The new KAi is more capable because it's backed by a structured set of tools that can query…

Alex Drag

Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.9.x.x EOL

Product ReleasesJanuary 20, 2026

As of January 2026, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.9 will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.9 will enter a 12-month sunset support period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway…

Andrew Jessup

Agentic AI Integration: Why Gartner’s "Context Mesh" Changes Everything

EnterpriseJanuary 16, 2026

The report identifies a mindset trap that's holding most organizations back: "inside-out" integration thinking. Inside-out means viewing integration from the perspective of only prioritizing the reuse of legacy integrations and architecture (i.e., simply wrapping existing integrations with MCP and…

Alex Drag

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AI Agent with Strands SDK, Kong AI/MCP Gateway & Amazon Bedrock

EngineeringJanuary 12, 2026

In one of our posts, Kong AI/MCP Gateway and Kong MCP Server technical breakdown, we described the new capabilities added to Kong AI Gateway to support MCP (Model Context Protocol). The post focused exclusively on consuming MCP server and MCP tools through Kong MCP Gateway. Now, it's time to check…

Claudio Acquaviva

Insights from eBay: How API Ecosystems Are Ushering In the Agentic Era

EngineeringDecember 15, 2025

APIs have quietly powered the global shift to an interconnected economy. They’ve served as the data exchange highways behind the seamless experiences we now take for granted — booking a ride, paying a vendor, sending a message, syncing financial records, or stitching together SaaS tools into a…

Amit Dey

Kong AI/MCP Gateway and Kong MCP Server Technical Breakdown

EngineeringDecember 11, 2025

In the latest Kong Gateway 3.12 release , announced October 2025, specific MCP capabilities have been released: The Kong AI Gateway sits in between the AI applications we build and the MCP Servers and GenAI models we consume. In fact, the Kong MCP Gateway sits side-by-side with the Kong LLM…

Claudio Acquaviva

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Building the Agentic AI Developer Platform: A 5-Pillar Framework

EnterpriseJanuary 15, 2026

The first pillar is enablement. Developers need tools that reduce friction when building AI-powered applications and agents. This means providing: The goal isn't to replace existing development workflows but to extend them. Developers should be able to build agents using familiar paradigms while…

Alex Drag

AI Gateway vs. MCP Gateway: Key Differences Explained

Learning CenterJanuary 14, 2026

The enterprise AI landscape is transforming much faster than most organizations can adapt. One moment you're testing ChatGPT for customer service. The next, you're orchestrating dozens of AI agents that need secure access to databases, APIs, and multiple LLM providers. This rapid evolution creates…

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API Product Management Guide: 6 Strategies for the Full Lifecycle

EnterpriseJanuary 14, 2026

APIs are the connective tissue of digital products and services, and they're the lifeblood of AI. APIs shape customer experiences, power partner ecosystems, and accelerate enterprise innovation. As organizations double down on API-first strategies, one role is emerging as indispensable: the API…

Amit Dey

Exploring API Endpoints in Depth

Learning CenterJanuary 2, 2026

API endpoints are like the doors to a web service. Through these endpoints, we can enter and talk to a web service and be shown where and how we can gain access to whatever it is the server has. This process allows separate pieces of software to swap information in a controlled way. Understanding…

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What is AI Governance? 2026 Framework Guide

Learning CenterJanuary 2, 2026

AI governance establishes the principles, roles, processes, and controls for responsible AI deployment. It transforms abstract ethics into concrete practices. Think of ​​AI governance as a rulebook for how to use AI in a secure, ethical, observable, moderated, and auditable fashion. It’s a…

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The 2025 Kong Year in Review

NewsDecember 30, 2025

With major advances in building the AI connectivity layer and soaring enterprise adoption of agentic systems, this year sparked a hockey-stick surge in demand for the infrastructure that powers intelligent agents. Below is a rundown on the updates, the innovations, and the moments that moved the…

Amit Dey

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Introducing MCP Tool ACLs: Fine-Grained Authorization for AI Agent Tools

AI GatewayJanuary 14, 2026

The evolution of AI agents and autonomous systems has created new challenges for enterprise organizations. While securing API endpoints is well-understood, controlling access to individual AI agent tools presents a unique authorization problem. Today, we're excited to announce a powerful solution…

Greg Peranich

Move More Agentic Workloads to Production with AI Gateway 3.13

AI GatewayDecember 18, 2025

We know that successful AI connectivity programs often start with an intense focus on how you govern and protect LLM and MCP traffic. This is why Kong was first to market with an enterprise-grade AI gateway , and it’s why, in our last release, we added enterprise MCP proxy support to our…

Greg Peranich

The AI Governance Wake-Up Call

AIDecember 12, 2025

Companies are charging headfirst into AI, with research around agentic AI in the enterprise finding as many as 9 out of 10 organizations are actively working to adopt AI agents. LLMs are being deployed, agentic workflows are getting created left and right, and the promises of what this technology…

Taylor Hendricks

Kong AI Gateway and the EU AI Act: Compliance Without the Rewrites

AINovember 26, 2025

The Requirement : Article 10 of the EU AI Act mandates strict data governance for high-risk AI systems. This includes error detection, bias monitoring, and arguably most critically for enterprise use — ensuring that sensitive personal data (PII) is not improperly processed or leaked into public…

Jordi Fernandez Moledo

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