# Automate Your API Lifecycle Management With Kong and AWS

In this webinar we will be sharing common enterprise gateway patterns that Kong’s customers have built to implement an end-to-end API lifecycle. We will also be running through the different ways in which Kong customers deploy their API platforms to maximize their return of investment in API management. You will learn about different API gateway patterns, architecting Kong’s platform for complicated environments as well as how Kong Konnect can further help you federate your API gateway deployments.

Key Takeaways

• - Understand why security, observability, and reliability are important in the cloud native world, both for inter and intra application communications.
• - How to build APIs in a stable way and ensure they are well documented for partners and customers.
• - Compare API gateway and service mesh, and patterns for each.
• - Use Kong Insomnia to design your OpenAPI based APIs.
• - Enhance your existing CI/CD pipelines to support API Lifecycle along with your Microservices.
• - Learn how to govern your APIs and policies with Kong Konnect in a hybrid and distributed environment.
• - Understand how a single Kong Cluster can protect your workloads running on multiple AWS runtimes, including Amazon EC2, ECS and EKS.
• - Learn how to quickly get started with Kong Konnect from AWS marketplace