The unified platform for every API, model, and agent you build on AWS, and every environment you run next.

### Deploy Kong the way you want

Run Kong-managed gateways in AWS regions today, and extend to Azure, GCP, on-prem, and hybrid tomorrow under one control plane. This allows you to run locally to the workload for data sovereignty performance and unmatched flexibility for your developer & infrastructure teams. With Kong, your API + AI platform unleashes your long-term architecture.

### Scale when you need it

Long-running AI inference, large payloads, and high-throughput APIs can run into [_AWS API Gateway's_](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/06/amazon-api-gateway-integration-timeout-limit-29-seconds/)_AWS API Gateway's_ limits: HTTP APIs have a fixed 30-second integration timeout, REST APIs default to 29 seconds unless increased for Regional/private APIs, and payloads are capped at 10MB. Kong's configurable runtime gets out of the way without the same quota tradeoffs.

### Govern every model, everywhere

Bedrock and AgentCore handle AWS-hosted models and agents beautifully. Kong AI Gateway supports cross-cloud, on-premesis, cross-model provider routing, token budgets, MCP, A2A, and PII protection for everything your company needs to access today and in the future.

### Simplify the connectivity layer

A production AWS stack may combine multiple components: API Gateway, Lambda, Cognito, WAF, CloudWatch, Bedrock, AgentCore, and more. Kong unifies APIs, AI, MCP, agents, and observability through a single control plane, and still uses every AWS service you already love underneath.

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Capabilities

Kong

AWS

API Management (Compared to Amazon API Gateway)

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Limited

10MB payload limit

HTTP, REST, and WebSocket APIs only

LLM Management (Compared to Bedrock)

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Cross-cloud and cross-provider model access		Limited. AWS-only delivery; no cross-cloud model portability
Semantic routing beyond Bedrock
Cross-provider failover (maybe beyond bedrock)
Semantic caching		Prompt caching only
Per-user, per-group, per-model rate limiting		Account/model quotas only
Token-aware budgets		Monitoring only
PII sanitization
Custom guardrails		AWS-managed guardrails only
Deterministic response verification
Built-in metering & billing		AWS billing only

Limited. AWS-only delivery; no cross-cloud model portability