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    Kong Gateway Enterprise

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    The End-to-End Service Control Platform for Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Organizations.

    Overview

    Kong Gateway Enterprise is a service connectivity platform that provides technology teams at multi-cloud and hybrid organizations the "architectural freedom" to build APIs and services anywhere. Kong's service connectivity platform provides a flexible, technology-agnostic platform that supports any cloud, platform, protocol and architecture. Kong Enterprise supports the full lifecycle of service management, enabling users to easily design, test, secure, deploy, monitor, monetize and version their APIs. Over 250 enterprises trust Kong Enterprise to reduce time to market by bringing applications and services to market faster, as well as increase infrastructure ROI by maximizing resource efficiency through improved automation and reduced overhead.

    Highlights

    • Decentralize Applications and Services - Break down monoliths into services or build new applications with distributed architectures to accelerate your journey to microservices, Kubernetes and service mesh.

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    Kong Gateway Enterprise

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    64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

    Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

    An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.

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    To deploy your Kong Gateway Enterprise license, please, follow the steps described here: https://docs.konghq.com/gateway/latest/plan-and-deploy/licenses/deploy-license/ 

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    Swaroop C.

    Kong API Gateway: Love it or leave it

    Reviewed on Jun 10, 2025
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    Extendibility, deployment flexibility and scalability
    What do you dislike about the product?
    1. Plugin limitations
    2. Observability challanges
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    It solving api gateway, traffic management, Cross cutting problem like authentication, rate limit etc. , monitoring and tracing
    Computer Software

    Friendly and powerful solution for APIs

    Reviewed on May 29, 2025
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    What I like most about Kong Gateway is its ability to scale and manage APIs efficiently. Its plugin-based architecture allows for great flexibility and customization. Additionally, it offers easy integrations with existing systems and has an active community that facilitates the resolution of questions.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    The least useful aspect is that the learning curve can be somewhat steep for new users. The documentation, although extensive, could be clearer in some technical sections.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Thanks to Kong, we can now centralize traffic management, apply authentication, and rate limiting easily.
    Mansoor Ali K.

    A lightweight, fast and scalable platform for APIs hosting

    Reviewed on May 29, 2025
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    It has its roots in open source software
    Its built on top of nginX - a world-renown reverse proxy
    Its lightweight and expandable architecture - use only the modules (plugins) that you require
    Its modular design is easy to understand and intuitive - learning curve is small.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    Out-of-the-box monitoring and observability support for which you need to buy their additional products.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    We didn't have any API management platform and gateway. We started exploring options of which Kong community edition api gateway turned out to the most suitable candidate because it was light-weight, modular, fast and most importantly inherently scalable. We eventually ended up procuring the enterprise version of Kong. We primarily use Kong as a facade layer on top of our APIs that are consumed by multiple internal applications as well as by some third-party systems on a limited scale. it serves as a unified gateway for policing and monitoring all the API calls. It helps us authenticate and authorize API clients, enforce custom policies and functions via the modular plugins feature. One of the stand-out features is its intuitive interface that does not require steep learning-curve.
    Oil & Energy

    Kong API gateway easy to implement

    Reviewed on May 21, 2025
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    Ease of Use and Ease of Implementation and competitive price
    What do you dislike about the product?
    Support documentation can be improved for end user.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    API Management
    reviewer2704218

    Seamless integration and efficient security boost API management capabilities

    Reviewed on May 12, 2025
    Review provided by PeerSpot

    What is our primary use case?

    We use this solution as a way to expose our internal APIs, both internally in Kubernetes  and for private cloud of our own.

    What is most valuable?

    The most valuable features of Kong Gateway Enterprise  are its seamless integration with Kubernetes  and cloud, many plugins that can be incorporated in a solution, and its incorporation with low-code function systems.Kong provides the ability to relatively fast change our development and DevOps scaling from on-premise API and managed APIs to a very good and scalable solution, which provides the ability to monitor and react to the API, making it more valuable and providing more benefits for customers.

    What needs improvement?

    More plugins for additional integrations would be helpful and openness for traditional development languages, such as .NET, because many enterprises are looking for .NET solutions or incorporating with .NET solutions. I mostly missed local resellers or partners that we could use within our enterprise, because it was difficult for some tech personnel to work with remote tech support.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    I am just a customer of Kong Gateway Enterprise  from my former work.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    The stability would be rated about eight, as it is mostly stable.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    The scalability of this solution would be rated about eight or nine, and it would benefit if there was a little less latency.

    How are customer service and support?

    The technical support from Kong Gateway Enterprise would be rated about eight, as we missed local technical support.

    How would you rate customer service and support?

    Positive

    Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

    Before using Kong Gateway Enterprise, I used Azure  API management.We switched from Azure  to Kong Gateway Enterprise because we needed a solution to make API management on-premise and on cloud, and we did not want to work with Azure Arc, so we tried to find a solution that is possible to work with on both platforms, such as hybrid platforms.

    How was the initial setup?

    The initial setup of this solution was pretty straightforward, as we started to work with Docker , Docker  containers, and Kong Gateway Enterprise as a managed platform with Kong Connect; we quickly realized how to work with it and how to deploy it and work with GitOps.

    What about the implementation team?

    Our deployment was done in-house, as it is a private enterprise and closed.

    What other advice do I have?

    I did not work with the AI capabilities of this solution, so I cannot measure it.Based on my experience, I would definitely recommend Kong Gateway Enterprise to other people.I would rate the whole solution about nine.

    Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

    Hybrid Cloud

    If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

    Other
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