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In this Kong Konnect tutorial, you’ll learn how to leverage the platform to manage your API ecosystem from a single easy-to-use interface.

Greg Peranich and Tryn Brown contributed to this post. The world of financial services is driven by digital experiences. Over the last 20 years, virtually all banking activities have been taken online (an unfortunate change only for fans of pneumatic tubes and pens on beaded chains). Like other industries that have undergone digital transformation, financial institutions are leveraging APIs to give users a more seamless experience when managing their money.

The release of Kuma 2.3 brings experimental support for GAMMA (Gateway API for Mesh Management and Administration) resources. Kuma has long supported Gateway API with the built-in gateway for ingress traffic but with GAMMA support, users can specify how to route and modify in-mesh traffic using the well-known HTTPRoute resource from Gateway API. Gateway API is a project focused on improving the APIs around networking between services in Kubernetes clusters.

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Kong Enterprise and Kong Konnect Data Planes are now validated to run on AWS Graviton3 processors and Amazon Linux 2023 OS. As an APN Advanced Tier Partner of AWS, we were delighted to have the opportunity to benchmark Kong Enterprise running on AL2023 and Graviton3.

Kong is proud to announce the release of the latest version of Kong Mesh 2.3. In this release, Kong Mesh continues to build upon the enterprise-grade service mesh in the critical areas of, security, flexibility, and resiliency. As organizations continue to leverage APIs to deliver digital experiences they rely more heavily on the underlying infrastructure that a mesh provides.