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Kong Advances Konnect Capabilities to Propel Today's API Infrastructures into the AI Era
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Latest Updates to Kong's Unified API Platform Help Drive AI Innovation Across All Stages of the API Lifecycle with Advance New Features
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, today announced the launch of the latest version of Kong Konnect, the API platform for the AI era, at API Summit 2024. As organizations across the globe increasingly adopt AI, Kong Konnect emerges as the enterprise-grade unified platform that enables them to securely build, run, and govern API and GenAI applications. The platform provides a comprehensive solution for managing the entire API lifecycle, from development to deployment, with a focus on performance, security, governance, and cost efficiency.
With this update, Kong Konnect introduces advanced functionality to prepare your API infrastructure for the AI era. New features include a de facto system of record for all APIs to supply a central building-blocks repository for GenAI agents. This also offers enhanced visibility and control over shadow APIs, faster API configuration updates to improve operational efficiency, centralized management for API discovery, configuration and sensitive data, as well as enhanced tools for integrating with large language models (LLMs) to help accelerate GenAI adoption. Additionally, Konnect adds improved support with AI Gateway, and Insomnia launches the first AI runner.
"There is no AI without APIs, and the latest version of Kong Konnect delivers the essential infrastructure for both. We aim to give businesses the tools to manage and scale their API traffic securely, helping drive innovation faster than ever before," said Augusto Marietti, CEO and co-founder of Kong Inc. "Kong Konnect provides a unified API platform for building, running and governing GenAI applications."
Key new features of Kong Konnect include:
-- Konnect Service Catalog: Provides developers with a single source of
truth, which enables stronger management of Shadow APIs in IT
infrastructure. Many organizations struggle with a lack of visibility
leading to undiscovered and unmanaged APIs, opening them up to potential
risks. Service Catalog addresses those potential risks by integrating
with various systems--such as API and AI gateways, service meshes, and
Kubernetes - to provide comprehensive visibility into all APIs and
services. This added visibility allows organizations to proactively
mitigate vulnerabilities by eliminating undiscovered or unused APIs
within an organization's ecosystem. The capability also introduces
Service Catalog's Scorecards, which enables users to identify which
services aren't compliant with defined criteria allowing platform teams
to track and enforce organization-wide compliance.
-- Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways on AWS and now Azure: Kong's fully
managed, multi-region API management solution is now available on Azure
and additional AWS regions, ensuring high-performance API infrastructure
globally. This expansion ensures that organizations can deploy and
manage APIs across multiple clouds with enterprise-grade SLAs, reducing
the operational burden and allowing teams to focus on innovation rather
than infrastructure.
-- Kong Gateway 3.8: Kong's cloud-native gateway introduces two major
updates: Incremental Configuration Updates and enhanced OpenTelemetry
support. With Incremental Configuration Updates, users benefit from
dramatically reduced memory and CPU usage, improving efficiency and
responsiveness. Enhanced OpenTelemetry provides better observability,
setting a new standard for efficient, secure and scalable API
operations.
-- AI Gateway 3.8: This update introduces groundbreaking semantic
capabilities to enhance AI and API infrastructure. This new version
includes Semantic Caching, which accelerates AI responses by up to 20x
while reducing computational overhead, making GenAI applications faster
and more cost-effective. It also features Semantic Prompt Guard,
ensuring robust security by intelligently blocking inappropriate
prompts, and Semantic Routing, which simplifies AI model selection for
developers. AI Gateway 3.8 provides enterprises with improved customer
engagement, optimized costs, and comprehensive security, positioning it
as a leader in GenAI infrastructure.
-- Kong Insomnia 10: Kong's API design and testing tool introduces powerful
new features that elevate developer productivity, API quality, and
security. The latest version includes unlimited collection runs and AI
Runner, which offers seamless GenAI development with multi-LLM support
and up to 20x faster performance through semantic caching. Insomnia 10
also enhances collaboration with new enterprise-level security features
like Invite Control, ensuring that API assets are protected and
accessible only to authorized users.
-- Kong Serverless Gateways: Introduces the ability to integrate Kong's
fully featured gateway quickly and cost-effectively. Traditionally,
setting up a gateway on a server requires an investment in
infrastructure and expertise, but with Serverless Gateways, developers
can leverage a fully featured API gateway in a matter of minutes. With
this new offering, developers can simply select the option of
"Serverless" while creating a new gateway instance and begin defining
services and setting up routes. Serverless Gateways eliminates the
burden of gateway infrastructure, lifecycle management and maintenance
by having Kong handle the management and upkeep.
-- Advanced API and AI Analytics: New Advanced API and AI Analytics
capabilities introduce precision troubleshooting with real-time and
detailed insights into API performance. Capabilities include granular
visibility into metrics such as latency and request size, as well as
LLM-specific reporting, helping teams to improve and maintain API
quality and performance.
-- 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 third-party secret manager.
For more information on Kong Konnect, please visit https://konghq.com/products/kong-konnect.
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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