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API-Managed Event Streaming with Kong Konnect and Amazon MSK
Learn how to drive the most possible value out of your Kafka implementation.
Unify API and event streaming management
Expose event broker resources as secure, managed APIs with the Kong Event Gateway
It’s time to treat event streams as first-class citizens
Bring event brokers and real-time data streams under your API management umbrella with advanced protocol mediation, an event gateway, and message-level traffic shaping.
Why should I use my API management solution for Kafka?
Enforce consistent security standards
Use the same authorization protocols for Kafka event APIs as you do your REST APIs and other HTTP services, such as OAuth2, JWT, and more.
Improve the developer experience
Enable developers to build real-time applications on top of secure, documented Kafka event APIs — all as a part of your internal developer platform.
Productize your streaming data
Turn data streams into great customer experiences by packaging access to real-time data as self-service APIs in an API marketplace.
Expose event and data streams as event APIs
Drive more Kafka consumption
Create APIs that expose Kafka for client side API consumption.
Make Kafka easier for your API consumers
No Kafka clients? No problem. Expose Kafka as consumer-friendly APIs so API consumers can leverage streaming however they prefer.
Make streaming secure, reliable, and efficient
Enforce traffic shaping, security, and other logic at the message level using our advanced WebSockets plugins.
Build an incredible Kafka developer experience
Publish self-service Kafka event APIs in the Kong Developer Portal so that developers can easily discover, learn about, and start consuming Kafka streams in their applications.
Unify visibility and monitoring
Use a single solution to measure, monitor, and observe all API consumption across your organization.
Gartner® names Kong a Leader for the 5th Year in a Row
Kong named a Magic Quadrant™ leader for API Management, plus positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision.
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