Too many organizations manually manage their API gateways and policy enforcement today. As humans, we make mistakes. You’ve got one team manually configuring Kong or another gateway on AWS, another fiddling with policies in Azure, and someone else applying governance rules by hand in GCP. That’s a…
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It’s no secret that building global API infrastructure is a daunting task. In April, we announced the general availability of Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways — a fully managed, multi-region API management solution that makes setting up global API infrastructure fast and easy. With Dedicated…
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If you've ever gotten sticker shock after receiving a surprisingly large cloud bill, you're not alone. Many organizations have faced this challenge, especially as they scale their Kubernetes deployments . While the cloud makes flexible scaling possible, it has also introduced many new services one…
[](/blog/enterprise/kubernetes-cloud-cost-optimization-tactics)Today we announce the general availability of Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways, delivering on our promise when we launched the service in tech preview late last year. Cloud Gateways is a fully managed, multi-region API management solution. It’s the easiest and fastest way to deploy performant,…
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Now you can find and purchase Kong Konnect through the Google Cloud Marketplace! Kong Konnect is the unified API platform that allows you to manage multiple gateways across service meshes, ingress, cloud, and Kubernetes providers no matter where they run — on-premises, hybrid, cloud, or…
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GraphQL is a query language to enable applications to fetch data from servers. In fact, as it isn't tied to any specific database or storage engine, GraphQL can aggregate data from multiple sources to create a natural representation of your data. The representation is a graph. The following image…
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Today, we're thrilled to announce that Kong Enterprise and Kong Konnect Data Planes are now validated to run on AWS Graviton3 processors and Amazon Linux 2023 OS. As an APN Advanced Tier Partner of AWS, we were delighted to have the opportunity to benchmark Kong Enterprise running on AL2023 and…
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API gateways and load balancers are useful tools for building modern applications. While they have some functionality overlaps, they're distinct tools with different purposes and use cases. In this article, we'll discuss the differences between API gateways and load balancers, give examples of…
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I once heard someone say, "What the cloud migration strategies lack at the moment is a methodology to Lift-and-Shift connections to the cloud." Let's digest that. In today's landscape, maintaining a competitive edge and delivering a high-quality customer experience is becoming synonymous with…
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A critical and challenging requirement for many organizations is meeting audit and compliance obligations. The goal of compliance is to secure business processes, sensitive data, and monitor for unauthorized activities or breaches. AWS CloudTrail Lake now enables customers to record user…
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IBM recently announced the deprecation of its Cloud API Gateway, a service used to create and manage APIs by placing a gateway in front of existing IBM Cloud endpoints. With this move, IBM Cloud Functions and IBM Cloud Foundry are no longer able to use Cloud API Gateway service for rate limiting,…
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Since the initial launch of Kong Konnect Cloud, one common feature request has (unsurprisingly) been Multi-Region support. Many customers look for SaaS solutions that support a distributed service architecture. Even at its inception, our goal was to support more than a single region. Today, we’re…
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Kong has been hard at work to provide our customers' the best user experience of running our products in the AWS cloud. We've seen tremendous growth in our partnership with AWS in terms of joint solutions (co-build), building awareness through events and workshops (co-market), and growth in the…
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We live in a digital economy where Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are foundational elements for businesses to operate and grow. As rightly outlined by Gartner , APIs interconnect individual systems that contain data about people, businesses and things, enable transactions, and create new…
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This is the second part of our three-part blog series on APIs, sustainability and climate change. Missed the first part? Check it out here . In this blog, we examine ways to consume and embed APIs to make our own processes greener and show how APIs are the building blocks of a new wave…
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Hybrid and multi-cloud models have become popular for helping to prevent vendor lock-in, reducing costs, and allowing businesses to stay innovative by only using the best features of each cloud provider. Adopting a hybrid model has also been influenced by growing security concerns and tougher…
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