The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
Managed Redis cache is a turnkey "Shared State" add-on for Kong Dedicated Cloud Gateways. It is designed to combine the performance of an in-memory data store with the simplicity of a SaaS product. When you spin up a Dedicated Cloud Gateway in Kong Konnect, you can now toggle on Managed Redis with…
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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…
[](/blog/engineering/ai-agent-with-strands-kong-aimcp-gateway-bedrock)Kong Cloud Gateways are fully managed, high-performance data planes running on customer-dedicated infrastructure, orchestrated and operated by Kong through Kong Konnect . Customers can choose between: Together, these models give organizations the flexibility to run Kong where it makes the most…
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As a recognized leader in the API management and AI connectivity space, we're excited to be participating in re:Invent 2025, hosting executive meetings, and bringing together the community for meaningful conversations about modern API and AI strategies. Want to learn more about how Kong can help…
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Feed Agents (and humans, too) with *all* of your APIs While multi-gateway vendor deployments have been found to be lacking as a long-term strategy, the reality is that every large organization is — at some point — going to struggle with trying to wrangle APIs across multiple API gateway solutions.…
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Today, I'm excited to announce one of our largest Kong AI Gateway releases (3.11), which ships with several new features critical in building modern and reliable AI agents in production. We strongly recommend updating to this version to get access to the latest and greatest that AI infrastructure…
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We’re at it again, bringing more incremental improvements to Kong Mesh! Built on top of Kuma, Kong Mesh brings much-needed simplicity and production-grade tooling. Kong Mesh is built for smooth operations with platform teams in mind, providing security, observability, and traffic control for…
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Why switch to Dedicated Cloud Gateways? Well, the drivers for moving to managed cloud gateways are simple enough, as they mirror all the reasons behind why you would want to move any workload to the cloud. By choosing a DCGW, you benefit from faster time to market, easier scalability, and reduced…
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We're continuing our efforts to make Kong Gateway Operator (KGO) the preferred way to install, upgrade, scale, and manage a Kong Gateway or Kubernetes Ingress — whether you’re managing from Kong Konnect or Kubernetes. With this latest release, we're: As ever, we’re continuously addressing issues…
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Earlier this year the Kong Konnect Analytics team was looking to leverage the stability and flexibility of our own Kong Gateway to handle the entire load of our Analytics ingest firehose. Almost all Konnect API traffic flows through a Kong Gateway and most of it has from the very beginning. For…
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The focus of this blog is to provide step-by-step instructions for deploying and configuring Kong Mesh with Kong Konnect on an AWS ECS instance so that anyone will be able to get pre-production installation of Kong Mesh standing up on their own. Kong Konnect is an API lifecycle management platform…
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AWS offers its own out-of-the-box API gateways. For many AWS teams, AWS API Gateways are a natural place to start when beginning their API management and API gateway journeys. However, as API practices and programs begin to scale, many organizations begin to look beyond AWS due to major…
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Today at API Summit , we're introducing one of the biggest new releases of our AI Gateway technology : a new class of intelligent semantic plugins, new advanced load balancing capabilities for LLMs, and the official support for AWS Bedrock and GCP Vertex, in addition to all the other supported LLM…
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of API management, understanding the raw performance and reliability of your API gateway is not just an expectation — it's a necessity. At Kong, we're dedicated to ensuring our users have access to concrete, actionable data to guide their operational and…
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In this post, we're going to explore Karpenter, the ultimate solution for Node Autoscaling. Karpenter provides a cost-effective capability to implement your Kong Konnect Data Plane layer using the best EC2 Instances Types options available for your Kubernetes Nodes. See the previous posts in this…
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After getting our Konnect Data Planes vertically and horizontally scaled, with VPA and HPA , it's time to explore the Kubernete Node Autoscaler options. In this post, we start with the Cluster Autoscaler mechanism. (Part 4 in this series is dedicated to Karpenter.) The Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler…
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