Building a multi-region or multi-cloud environment for your applications requires a lot of attention. In a typical deployment, you would have an API gateway running close to the several application runtimes. You should enhance your deployment to support different regions in a given cloud, or in an even more distributed and hybrid scenario, multiple services running across other public clouds and on-premise environments.
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In Kong, plugins can be thought of as policy enforcers. In the case of rate limiting, Kong offers two plugins: An open source one and Enterprise. Both plugins can limit requests per consumer, route, service or globally. Configuring the same plugin is also possible on a more than level. When this occurs, an order of precedence is used to determine which configuration to run. With this capability, it is possible to apply fine-grained policy control. In this article, we cover an advanced use case.