The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
At Kong, we're always looking to expand the experience of running our products in the AWS cloud. As we steadily move into 2023, we want to continue this streak because we see firsthand the tremendous growth and success it provides our customers. Today, we're excited to announce that the Kong API…
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Application Modernization projects often require their workloads to run on multiple platforms which requires a hybrid model. Kong Konnect is an API lifecycle management platform delivered as a service. The Control Plane, responsible for admin tasks, is hosted in the cloud by Kong. The Data Plane,…
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Kong Konnect is a powerful SaaS-based API lifecycle management platform that provides a fast path for people looking to get started with Kong API Gateway. For existing users of Kong’s open-source gateway, it offers a way to rapidly take advantage of a scalable, highly-available architecture while…
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Wondering what’s new in Kong Konnect ? In this roundup, we’ll highlight some of the new capabilities and expansions in Kong Konnect, including portal role-based access control (RBAC) API, OAS validation plugin, and support for Kong Gateway 3.2. Read on to learn more. You can now use Portal RBAC API…
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Red Hat OpenShift is the industry's leading enterprise Kubernetes platform that runs ubiquitously across on-prem, and the cloud. With Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) , a managed Red Hat OpenShift platform that runs natively on AWS, it is even easier to get kick-started on an…
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Since our last Kong Konnect monthly update , we've been hard at work to deliver some more powerful features in Kong Konnect , including consumer groups, dynamic client registration using Curity and Auth0, plugin ordering, and streamlined Docker runtime instance creation. Read on to learn what's new…
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Hayden Lam also contributed to this post. Today we’re thrilled to announce new features in Kong Konnect , including secrets management, support for Kong Gateway 3.1, Analytics updates, runtime group APIs, system accounts, and an intuitive overview page and service wizard. In this blog, we'll…
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We're excited to announce new features in Kong Konnect that are designed to increase security and streamline API management. Read on to learn more about what's new in Kong Konnect. Now you can give your users secure and fine-grained access to track analytics and monitoring information in Kong…
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A common use case that is frequently requested is how to dynamically route requests based on authentication attributes. An example of this technique is routing requests to relevant upstream services based on claims contained in a JWT token. Admins would like all their clients to go to the same URI…
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As infrastructure becomes more and more distributed, building better observability around it is becoming crucial. With the emergence of microservices architecture, teams want to gain better visibility with proper observability built into the architecture. In this blog post, we’ll explain how we…
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We’re excited to announce new features in Kong Konnect , including the ability to take advantage of identity management APIs, streamlined certificate management, and latency metrics as part of Analytics . Read on to learn about these features and how kong helps future-proof API security . Now you…
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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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Christian Heidenreich and Sunny Xia also contributed to this post. We're excited to announce a new release of Kong Konnect , the end-to-end SaaS API lifecycle management platform. This release introduces a number of brand new features as well as improve existing features that empower you to…
[](/blog/product-releases/konnect-kong-summit-2022-updates)Our latest release of Kong Konnect augments the security and compliance of the offering through enhanced authentication capabilities. Through the rest of this post, we’ll walk you through each of these features and explore what’s new in this Kong Konnect release. Figure 1: Kong Konnect Personal…
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We've heard it called a million and one different things. Sometimes it's "selective synchronization", sometimes it's called "environments". What is clear though, is that there's a real need to be able to manage multiple sets of configuration for Kong Gateway through a single interface. Today, we're…
[](/blog/product-releases/managing-multiple-environments-with-konnect-and-runtime-groups)Secure your AI infrastructure with prompt guards, PII sanitization, and centralized governance. Control LLM costs with token-based rate limiting and semantic routing across providers.