Kong, a developer of cloud API technologies, has announced the commercial availability of Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Available exclusively via Kong Konnect, the company’s unified API platform, this release represents a new standard in simplicity for deploying global, dedicated API management, combining zero downtime upgrades, one-click deployment and elastic scalability.

Cloud Gateways offers users the ability to effortlessly establish a multi-cloud and multi-region distributed API management infrastructure, either at the edge or internally, with dedicated cloud resources. With support for private networking, which fortifies secure connections within the cloud, the platform delivers an unrivaled developer experience reminiscent of serverless environments — albeit on dedicated, customer-exclusive infrastructure.

“Today we’re delivering the fastest API infrastructure, featuring one-click deployment that completely simplifies API management. It’s a game changer,” said Marco Palladino, CTO and Co-Founder of Kong Inc. “We’ve combined our renowned modern, performant and extensible API technology with the ease of use of automatic scaling and no-downtime upgrades, while also running on dedicated infrastructure for maximum performance and security with support for private networking and a multi-cloud vision. It’s truly a unique offering in the whole industry that will enable our customers to experience a paradigm shift for product agility, operational velocity and cost efficiency.”

At its core, the platform harnesses Kong Gateway, widely recognized as the most popular OSS API gateway. This integration allows seamless management of APIs with uniform performance and facilitates the use of Kong Gateway’s extensive plugin library and custom plugins. Users can also take advantage of the complete suite of Kong Konnect’s full lifecycle API management capabilities, including Gateway Manager, Mesh Manager, Service Hub, Developer Portal, and API Analytics, as well as Kong Konnect’s suite of offerings for enabling federated governance at scale for modern platform teams.

Initially, Cloud Gateways is available on AWS across nine regions. Expansion to support Microsoft Azure will be announced in the coming months, and Google Cloud expansion is anticipated to be available by the end of 2024. Users can now deploy multiple clusters on Kong Konnect Control Planes to meet diverse needs with assured scalability and flexibility.