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Kong Gateway 3.8 Elevates API Management with Unmatched Performance, Security, and AI Integration
Friday, September 20, 2024
Latest Update to Kong's Flagship API Gateway Introduces Incremental Configuration Sync, Enhanced Security Plugins and Semantic Intelligence for GenAI
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, announced today at API Summit 2024 the release of Kong Gateway 3.8, a major update that sets a new standard for API management. This release delivers significant enhancements in performance, security and AI capabilities, making it easier than ever for organizations to manage, secure and optimize their API ecosystems. Kong Gateway 3.8 introduces Incremental Configuration Sync, a groundbreaking feature that drastically reduces memory and CPU usage by transmitting only relevant configuration changes. This leads to faster processing, lower resource contention and a more efficient API management experience, allowing businesses to scale their operations without compromising performance.
"Kong Gateway 3.8 is a leap forward in how organizations can manage and secure their APIs," said Reza Shafii, senior vice president, product management at Kong Inc. "We've listened to our users' and customers' needs, and delivered a solution that not only enhances performance but also fortifies security and accelerates AI adoption."
Key Features and Benefits of Kong Gateway 3.8:
-- Faster Configuration Processing: Incremental Configuration Sync ensures
only the necessary changes are sent from the control plane to the data
plane, resulting in quicker configuration updates and reduced resource
usage. This leads to a more responsive API management experience.
-- Enhanced Security: New plugins, including JSON Threat Protection and
header-cert-auth, offer robust protection for APIs by enforcing content
inspection policies and supporting mutual certificate-based
authentication (mTLS) even in complex deployment patterns. These
features help safeguard APIs from potential threats and ensure secure
connections.
-- Advanced AI Integration: Our updated AI Gateway now features semantic
intelligence, introducing Semantic Prompt Guard, Semantic Caching and
Semantic Routing. These enhancements can dramatically improve GenAI
performance, reduce computational overhead and enhance security for
large language models (LLMs).
-- Comprehensive Observability: With OpenTelemetry, Kong Gateway 3.8 allows
for the collection and export of detailed telemetry data, including
logs, metrics and traces. This enhanced observability enables deeper
insights into API performance, facilitating more effective monitoring,
troubleshooting, and optimization.
-- Streamlined API Management via Kong Konnect: The new Konnect Config
Store provides a centralized, cloud-based repository for managing API
configurations, reducing operational overhead, and ensuring consistency
across multiple data planes. This feature lowers the total cost of
ownership and simplifies vendor management. Further, the new Konnect
Vault feature enables Kong Konnect deployed Kong Gateways to leverage a
Konnect supplied and hosted secret management thus saving the need for
the independent management of a 3rd party secret manager.
"With Kong Gateway 3.8, we continue to push the boundaries of what's possible in API management," Shafii said. "This release not only addresses the current challenges of managing and securing APIs at scale but also lays the groundwork for the next generation of AI-powered applications."
For more information about Kong Gateway 3.8, read this blog. Or click here for more information about Kong Konnect, the API platform for AI, which is designed to help organizations securely build, run, and govern AI-driven applications. With a focus on performance, security, governance, and cost efficiency, the platform enables businesses to innovate faster by efficiently managing and scaling their API infrastructure.
About Kong Inc.
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become "API-first" and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally -- from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises -- unleash developer productivity, build securely, and accelerate time to market. For more information about Kong, please visit www.konghq.com or follow us on X @thekonginc.
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SOURCE Kong Inc.
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