The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
As enterprises race to deploy multicloud architectures and Agentic AI, they face a common bottleneck: "state." To govern AI token usage, manage agent-to-agent communication, or optimize performance via caching, API and AI gateways require a persistence layer to synchronize data. We’re excited to…
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A persistent challenge arises as businesses adopt multicloud architectures and agentic AI: the need for state synchronization. API and AI gateways require a robust persistence layer to synchronize data, whether it's for governing AI token usage, facilitating agent-to-agent communication, or…
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Modern enterprises are embracing multi-cloud strategies to avoid vendor lock-in, optimize costs, and ensure resilience. Yet managing API infrastructure (which also happens to be AI infrastructure) across multiple cloud providers while maintaining performance and simplicity remains a significant…
[](/blog/product-releases/fully-managed-redis-instances)In case you missed it, we recently made a big announcement around beta GCP support for Kong’s Dedicated Cloud Gateways (DCGWs) . There’s a lot of good stuff in there, but TL;DR DCGWs now support all three of the major cloud service providers (CSPs): AWS, Azure, and GCP at a 99.95% SLA with support…
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Imagine a world where you could deploy your API gateways across any cloud, enforce enterprise-grade policies, and meet compliance standards all within a single Terraform apply. Most teams think about infrastructure as code only in terms of spinning up VMs, networking components, databases, or maybe…
[](/blog/engineering/terraform-your-way-to-the-cloud)When speaking with platform teams who are responsible for setting up their organizations’ API platforms, we often hear: "We really want to offload the infra side of this. We don’t want our engineers spinning up their own locally hosted infrastructure or asking other infrastructure teams to do this.…
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Many organizations struggle with managing API gateways across multiple cloud environments. In this blog post, we'll explore how Kong Mesh can solve these challenges and enable seamless cross-cloud connectivity. Many large companies operate API gateways in multiple regions or cloud service…
[](/blog/engineering/service-mesh-api-gateways-cross-cloud-connectivity)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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The cloud native paradigm for application development has evolved significantly since its inception. Today, it encompasses microservices architecture, containerized services, automation, orchestration, distributed management, and emerging technologies like serverless computing and edge computing.…
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With cloud-native technology gaining popularity by the day, it's crucial for businesses to stay up-to-date with its innovative architecture and functionalities. As opposed to traditional monolithic architectures, cloud-native infrastructure adopts a modular design made up of small but powerful…
[](/blog/learning-center/what-is-cloud-native)While this idiom generally refers to the concept of avoiding the investment of all of ones energy or resources into a single venture at the risk of losing everything, in this context, the risk of locking in to a single vendor is a different cost: budget, manpower and time. When migrating an…
[](/blog/learning-center/vendor-lock-in)What do these terms mean? Do they refer to the same things in Kubernetes as they do in a service mesh? If you've encountered difficulty searching for a straight answer, look no further. Ultimately, the terms control plane and data plane are all about the separation of concern — that is, a clear…
[](/blog/learning-center/control-plane-vs-data-plane)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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After you've built your microservices -backed application, it's time to deploy and connect them. Luckily, there are many cloud providers to choose from, and you can even mix and match. Many organizations, like Australia Post , are taking the mix-and-match approach, embracing a multi-cloud…
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There are good reasons for spreading workloads and applications across multiple clouds. Options include using a combination of public and on-premises cloud platforms, a strategy known as hybrid cloud—or using more than one public cloud provider, a strategy known as multi-cloud. What are those…
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As more and more companies move to a multi-cloud strategy and increase usage of a cloud native infrastructure , API providers are under a lot of pressure to deliver APIs at scale in multi-cloud environments. At the same time, APIs should follow each company's security requirements and best…
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