After [having announced](https://konghq.com/blog/kuma-1-0-ga-released-with-70-new-features-improvements)having announced Kuma 1.0 GA with over 70+ new features and improvements (and Kuma 1.0.1 [this week](https://konghq.com/blog/kuma-1-0-1-released)this week), we are finally happy to announce a new major version of Kong Mesh that includes all the latest Kuma features – and more – in a fully supported enterprise package.

With** Kong Mesh 1.1** we can now deploy the most advanced enterprise service mesh in production across every cloud and private datacenter, on both Kubernetes and virtual machines.

*With Kong Mesh 1.1 we can deploy a service mesh that can natively integrate with *[*Kong Enterprise*](https://konghq.com/products/kong-enterprise)*Kong Enterprise** in order to create a full stack connectivity plane from gateway to mesh.*

## **Notable Improvements in 1.1**

Kong Mesh ships with the greatest and latest Kuma features, that include:

#### Multi-Zone 🌎

• - Simplified multi-zone deployment with auto generation of “Zone” resources.
• - Locality aware load-balancing to reduce multi-zone latency and reduce egress costs.
• - Automatic synchronization of ingress data plane proxies to global CP via the new “Ingress” DP type.

#### Services & Policies 🚀

• - Added support for explicit external services.
• - Added support for a new “Service” resource that groups multiple data plane proxies per “kuma.io/service”.
• - Added support for the Kafka protocol.
• - Configurable pass-through control capabilities in a “Mesh” resource.

#### Performance 📊

• - Battle tested in production in mission critical SLA-enforced enterprise environments.
• - Significant overall performance improvements (~5x) when running tens of thousands of services in Kuma.
• - Improvements in internal caching of resources to better support high data plane proxy loads.
• - Improved overall scalability of the CLI and the GUI when running with a large amount of resources.

#### Security 🔒

• - A new flow for securing data plane proxies with the control plane and locking down the communication between them.
• - A new flow for starting data plane proxies and connecting them to the control plane that works better in non-K8s containerized environments.
• - Added support for Kubernetes probes.
• - Improved readiness checks for sidecar proxy in Kubernetes.

#### Other ➕

• - Kuma 1.0 ships with a new GUI!
• - Added over 30+ new charts available out of the box in Grafana to capture the behavior of the CP at scale. Kuma now provides over 65+ charts out of the box.
• - Added support for AWS ECS and Fargate deployments.
• - Upgraded to latest Envoy 1.16.0

In addition to the features above, Kong Mesh also natively provides support for 3rd party PKIs like **Hashicorp Vault** when setting up zero-trust security with mTLS, and a native integration with **Kong Enterprise**.

*Kong Mesh 1.1 ships with a new – more scalable – browser GUI.*

## **Production Mileage**

Kong Mesh is today being deployed across enterprise organizations around the world to power the underlying connectivity to both legacy and modern applications running across a large variety of environments. Designed for the enterprise architect that must support all the teams in the organization, Kong Mesh ships with support SLAs, enterprise features and a full integration with the broader Kong Enterprise platform.

To learn more and get access to the enterprise case studies, you can get in touch with Kong today.