Overview
Kong API Gateway is an open-source, cloud-native API gateway designed to manage, secure, and optimize communication between applications and services. Built on top of Nginx, it delivers high performance and reliability for APIs and microservices deployments.
With Kong Gateway, administrators can configure routing, load balancing, authentication, rate limiting, logging, and monitoring through a centralized platform. It supports both database-backed and DB-less deployments, making it suitable for traditional environments as well as Kubernetes and containerized infrastructures.
Kong includes a rich ecosystem of plugins that provide advanced capabilities such as OAuth2, JWT authentication, CORS, request transformation, caching, observability, and AI-related integrations. Its extensible architecture and Docker support make it an ideal solution for organizations building scalable and secure API-driven applications.
Highlights
- High-performance API gateway with built in security, authentication, and traffic management capabilities.
- Supports cloud native deployments with an extensive plugin ecosystem and Docker integration.
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Pricing
Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
m4.large Recommended | $0.03 |
t3.micro | $0.03 |
t2.micro | $0.01 |
m3.medium | $0.03 |
c3.large | $0.03 |
c5.large | $0.03 |
c4.large | $0.03 |
t3.small | $0.03 |
m5.large | $0.03 |
t2.small | $0.03 |
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No Refund
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Delivery details
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.
Version release notes
Packaged with latest updates as of June/2026
Additional details
Usage instructions
Connect your instance via SSH, the username is ubuntu. More info on SSH: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html - Run the following commands: #sudo docker ps #sudo docker exec kong kong version
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