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Global API infrastructure
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Dedicated Cloud Gateways

Launch fully managed, dedicated Cloud Gateways with ever-expanding global coverage. Learn More

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Serverless Gateways

Run instantly-ready serverless gateways for prototyping and pre-production use cases. Learn More

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Speed up time to value

Provision, manage, secure, and govern your APIs in a matter of minutes. Run on dedicated infrastructure in AWS, Azure, or go serverless — all managed by Kong.

Reduce operational overhead

Leverage Kong’s expertise to handle gateway updates, security patches, and daily maintenance. Use the platform to define policies and guardrails once and apply uniformly across your entire environment.

Ensure performance and high-availability

Deploy as many clusters of Kong Gateway as you need in a few clicks on dedicated infrastructure for enhanced security and performance.

Make API Management cost-effective

Automatically scale highly-available resources based on current demand, and pay only for what you use with dedicated cloud gateways. Or, get a fully-featured gateway running at a very low cost with serverless gateways.

See it in action

Learn how you can deploy a serverless gateway for development or a dedicated cloud gateway for production, both in a matter of minutes in Kong Konnect.

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Dedicated Cloud Gateways

Sub-millisecond latency, hundreds of plugins, and a world-class ecosystem of integrations.

Automatic Scalability

Scale how you want

Choose Autopilot to have Kong automatically scale Gateway deployments based on traffic. Or, implement higher predictability and control with Custom mode, which gives you full control over how you deploy Kong infrastructure.

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Global Availability

Kong will meet you where you need to run

Enhance performance by deploying your infrastructure close to your APIs in AWS and/or Azure in an expanding number of regions, and keep sensitive API traffic in your desired location.

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High Performance

Dedicated performance

Leverage the reliability and security of dedicated infrastructure combined with the ease of use of an autoscalable offering. The best of both worlds.

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For Edge and Internal APIs

Private networking and more

Support internal and edge use cases with the security you enjoyed in your own data centers. Leverage global routing at the edge across region.

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Serverless Gateways

Cost-effective, easy to use, and 1-click deployments for prototyping and development environments.

Effortless

The easiest way to deploy a Kong Gateway

Launch a fully featured Kong Gateway in Konnect with a few clicks. Don’t think twice about infrastructure, architecture, scalability, or server management — Kong handles the upkeep. 

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Rapid Deployment

Accelerate your time to value

Configure your gateway, define your services, and start prototyping with a live URL in mere minutes.

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Cost-effective

Fully featured Kong Gateway at a low cost

Deploy and test gateways and APIs without the financial strain of infrastructure and operational overhead. Economically leverage the power of everything Kong Gateway offers.

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Frequently asked questions

Dedicated Cloud Gateways

Serverless Gateways

Fully managed

Yes

Yes

Plugin Compatibility

Plugins are supported for dedicated cloud gateways. Reference them here.

Plugins are supported for serverless gateways. Reference them here.

Service-level agreement (SLA) included

Yes

There is no SLA for serverless gateways.

Single-tenant cloud

Yes, dedicated cloud gateways are deployed on single-tenant infrastructure for robust security, high availability, and high performance.

Serverless gateways are deployed on multi-tenant infrastructure and are therefore more cost-effective than dedicated cloud gateways.

Multi-cloud flexibility

You can choose to deploy dedicated cloud gateways in AWS and/or Azure. Google Cloud coming soon.

There is no flexibility to choose a cloud provider.

Multi-region flexibility

You can deploy Dedicated Cloud Gateways in 23 global regions across AWS and Azure.

Users can choose the region they’d like to deploy to at a very high level.

No, you can get started with Dedicated Cloud Gateways and/or Serverless Gateways directly in Konnect – all you need is a Konnect account. You can register here to try for free with Kong Konnect Plus, or log in here. Cloud Gateways are fully managed by Kong, meaning you don’t have to think or worry about the infrastructural components of setting up and maintaining gateways.

Please refer to our pricing page for pricing and licensing details.

For dedicated cloud gateways, users can select their preferred Kong Gateway version from a list of recent LTS (Long-term Support) versions. For serverless gateways, users cannot select Kong Gateway versions.

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No, you can get started with Dedicated Cloud Gateways and/or Serverless Gateways directly in Konnect – all you need is a Konnect account. You can register here to try for free with Kong Konnect Plus, or log in here. Cloud Gateways are fully managed by Kong, meaning you don’t have to think or worry about the infrastructural components of setting up and maintaining gateways.

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