Kong Mesh 2.11: Reduced Privileges, Improved Support for AWS ECS
We’re at it again, bringing more incremental improvements to Kong Mesh!
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Kong's Dedicated Cloud Gateways: A Deep Dive
In case you missed it, we recently made a big announcement around beta GCP support for Kong’s Dedicated Cloud Gateways (DCGWs). There’s a lot of good stuff in there, but TL;DR DCGWs now support all three of the major cloud service providers (CSPs): AWS, Azure, and GCP at a 99.95% SLA with support for over 25 regions around the globe. Being the first API management vendor to support managed gateway deployments with all three CSPs has a lot of folks excited, for obvious reasons.
72% Say Enterprise GenAI Spending Going Up in 2025, Study Finds
Enterprise adoption of large language models (LLMs) is surging. According to Gartner, more than 80% of enterprises will have deployed generative AI (GenAI) applications or used GenAI APIs by 2026, up from just 5% in 2023. That stark increase paints a telling picture: LLMs have evolved from a fringe technology to a cornerstone of business development and productivity. But as with any new technology, competition is fierce.
How to ensure your AI projects are production ready
Join Kong HQ for an insightful LinkedIn Live session titled "How to Ensure Your AI Projects Are Production Ready." As AI continues to transform industries, moving from experimentation to deployment is one of the biggest challenges organizations face. In this session, our experts will dive into what it truly means for an AI project to be "production ready," discussing essential practices around scalability, reliability, governance, and observability.
API Developer Day with Kong Insomnia and Kong Konnect
Build, run, discover, and govern your APIs as part of an automated pipeline Insomnia isn't just a powerful API client — it's a part of the larger Kong Konnect platform for managing the overall lifecycle of your APIs: build, run, discover, and govern. During this event, we’ll utilize a design first approach to building a REST API. We’ll leverage Kong Insomnia to design and test this API and then use Kong Konnect to secure and expose this API for consumption. Finally, we’ll follow APIops best practices and implement end-to-end automation over the entire API lifecycle.
7 Signs Your Kafka Environment Needs an API Platform
Managing Kafka as an island on its own got you this far. But scaling it securely and efficiently across your organization? That's another matter entirely. Apache Kafka is the number-one event streaming platform used by developers and data engineers worldwide to build reliable, scalable real-time data pipelines and event-driven applications.
Why APIs and Tools are Critical to Your AI Strategy
As enterprises race to integrate AI into their workflows, a critical truth is emerging: success isn’t defined by the size of your model—but by the strength of your infrastructure. Join Hugo Guerrero, Principal Technical Product Marketing Manager at Kong, and Alex Salazar, Co-Founder/CEO of Arcade.dev, for a live conversation on how APIs and the right tooling can unlock the full potential of AI agents in real-world enterprise environments.
Kong Gateway Operator 1.6: Improved Support for Konnect and AWS Transit Gateways
We're continuing our efforts to make Kong Gateway Operator (KGO) the preferred way to install, upgrade, scale, and manage a Kong Gateway or Kubernetes Ingress — whether you’re managing from Kong Konnect or Kubernetes. With this latest release, we're: As ever, we’re continuously addressing issues raised by the community. You’ll find the complete list of improvements in the KGO changelog.
Introducing Kong AI Manager
In this quick video, CTO and Co-Founder, Marco Palladino, demonstrates the capabilities of the new AI Manager in Kong Konnect.
Kong AI Manager: Govern & Observe Agentic Traffic to Thousands of LLMs
Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of AI Manager in Kong Konnect, the platform to manage all of your API, AI, and event connectivity across all modern digital applications and AI agents.