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[__# Take control of APIs across
any environment
Kong Gateway Enterprise extends the world’s most trusted API gateway with
advanced features and 24/7 support.
Trusted by 600+ customers of all sizes across all industries
## Scalable, secure, and self-managed
API management solution
### Effortless management
Simplify API management across hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments with intuitive Kong Manager UI.
### Robust security
FIPS 140-2 compliant gateway and support for fine-grained security policies help meet governance standards at scale.
### Enhanced efficiency
Maximize developer efficiency with out-of-the-box policies, granular access control, declarative configuration, and automation.
## Why Kong Gateway Enterprise?
Secure, govern, and monitor application connections across any cloud, platform, and protocol.
## 01/ Security
## Simplify API security and governance
- - Consistently apply fine-grained security and traffic policies via plugins, including mutual TLS, OpenID Connect, and OAuth 2.0.
- - Get out-of-the-box support for third-party secrets managers, such as AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, and Hashicorp Vault.
## 02/ Enterprise plugins
## Unlock advanced policies
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Leverage 100+ enterprise plugins for authentication, API security, traffic control, and more. Or build your own.
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Streamline user management at scale using consumer groups and apply consistent policies, facilitating API productization.
## 03/ Performance
## Benchmark your Gateway performance
- - Use Kong's published benchmarks, testing methodology, and environment details to understand how Kong Gateway performs.
- - Reproduce our results or define your own testing scenarios.
## 04/ Professional Support
## Get enterprise-grade services and support
- - Get predictable, best-in-class support services to complement our industry-leading API management solution.
- - Level up your team with Kong Academy courses combining instruction, hands-on labs exercises, and quizzes around best practices.
## Unleash developer productivity
- - Eliminate configuration drift with declarative configuration and seamless integration into CI/CD pipelines.
- - Speed up developer onboarding with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
## Customers on Kong Gateway Enterprise
## Verifone
We have some regions where we are required by regulations to operate on-premise or the private cloud. In other regions, we are able to leverage the public cloud. Kong can do it all.
Van Leeuwen
- Lead Architect at Verifone
75%
Reduced total cost of ownership
## FAB
With Kong, we delivered one of our commercial mobile banking applications in three months instead of seven [and] save four months of total custom development time . . .
Jayakumar Ganesan
- Head of Service - Digital Platforms, FAB
57%
Reduction in application
delivery time
## Cargill
From day one, it’s really felt like we were partners, not customers. Kong’s success engineers are incredible . . .
Colin Schaub
- Lead API Engineer
65x
Faster deployment with automated validations
## UNIL
Kong has become a central and essential component of our enterprise software architecture.
Paulo Monteiro
- Software Engineering Manager, Université de Lausanne
60%
Reduction in operational costs
## Resources
_eBook_
[__5 Questions To Ask Your API Gateway Vendor
__](/resources/e-book/5-questions-to-ask-your-api-gateway-vendor)__5 Questions To Ask Your API Gateway Vendor
__[](/resources/e-book/5-questions-to-ask-your-api-gateway-vendor)_Webinar_
[__Kong Enterprise Office Hours: Kong Gateway 3.3 Demo and Q&A
__](/events/webinars/kong-enterprise-office-hours-gateway-3-3-demo-and-qa)__Kong Enterprise Office Hours: Kong Gateway 3.3 Demo and Q&A
__[](/events/webinars/kong-enterprise-office-hours-gateway-3-3-demo-and-qa)## Get started with Kong Gateway Enterprise
Take control of the connections at the heart of your business — with Kong Gateway Enterprise.