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Kong Announces Winners of the 2025 Partner Awards
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Awarded at Partner Summit 2025, this recognition highlights the innovation, growth, and impact of Kong partners
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API and AI technologies, today announced the winners of its Partner Awards at the Partner Summit 2025 in New York City. The awards recognize the trailblazers in Kong's partner ecosystem who deliver meaningful outcomes around the world.
"This year's Partner Award winners exemplify the innovation and impact our ecosystem delivers, helping customers harness APIs and AI to drive real business outcomes. Congratulations to all the winners," said Ken Kim, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Kong Inc.
Submissions for these awards were evaluated based on the customer use cases worked on in collaboration with the partner and Kong, challenges faced, innovative solutions, and unique differentiators.
The Partner Award honorees include:
-- Partner of the Year Global: AWS stood out as the true leader for Partner
of the Year Global by delivering exceptional business impact,
innovation, and customer success across the board. The combined powerful
infrastructure and global scale of AWS with Kong Konnect provides state
of the art API and AI solutions for customers. Together, Kong and AWS
are supercharging customers' paths to AI innovation without sacrificing
performance, flexibility or security.
-- Partner of the Year AMS: Cognizant - Cognizant's recognition reflects
the deep trust, shared vision, and global success they have built with
Kong. Through implementations of Kong Konnect and Kong Gateway across
hybrid architectures, Cognizant has delivered measurable impact by
accelerating adoption, reducing onboarding costs, and improving
time-to-market. Their high-performance and infrastructure-agnostic
approach enhanced efficiency, lowered operational costs, strengthened
security and compliance, and established a standards-driven API
governance model that drives consistent innovation and long-term ROI.
Their leadership in advancing unified connectivity for digital and AI
transformation, driving modernization at scale through API-led
engineering, and enabling AI and agentic ecosystems with Kong truly
exemplifies what "Better Together" stands for.
-- Partner of the Year EMEA: TCS has been named Kong's Partner of the Year
in EMEA for their outstanding collaboration, innovation, and impact. By
delivering a resilient hybrid API platform with Kong Konnect and AWS ECS
Fargate, TCS enabled enterprise-wide modernization with zero downtime,
20% faster time-to-market, and 40% greater operational efficiency. Their
deep investment in Kong expertise and joint industry offerings
demonstrates the strength of "Better Together."
-- Partner of the Year APJ: Blulebik Vulcan Co., Ltd has been recognized as
Kong's Partner of the Year in APJ for driving secure, scalable, and
enterprise-grade transformation. Their deployment of Kong Gateway
Enterprise in hybrid mode modernized legacy infrastructure, strengthened
API governance, and accelerated release cycles from days to hours, all
while ensuring compliance and zero downtime.
-- Innovation Excellence: Ensono earned the Innovation Excellence Award for
delivering a secure, scalable API framework in the highly regulated
financial services sector. By implementing Kong Konnect as the backbone
of a national fraud prevention platform, they went live in less than
eight months. They support over 400 institutions and 900 organizations,
with the scale to handle one billion monthly API requests. This work set
a new standard for speed, resilience, and societal impact in financial
services.
-- Technical Excellence: AHEAD has been recognized with the Technical
Excellence Award for their deep architectural vision and field-to-field
collaboration with Kong. By helping leading enterprises modernize at
scale, AHEAD has established itself as a technical leader in the partner
ecosystem and a model for driving customer success with Kong
technologies.
-- Rising Star AMS: Persistent has been named Rising Star in the Americas
for their rapid growth and investment in Kong's platform. Through their
Kong Center of Excellence, Persistent has delivered a vendor-agnostic,
hybrid API management solution that reduced operational overhead by 30%,
accelerated API delivery by 40%, and strengthened security with
AI-driven governance. Their momentum and customer outcomes position them
as one of Kong's most promising new partners.
-- Rising Star EMEA: Coforge has been recognized with the Rising Star in
EMEA award for their accelerated impact. In a short time, they have
advanced digital and AI transformation for enterprise customers while
investing in Kong expertise and joint offerings. Their momentum reflects
strong alignment, customer focus, and the promise of a long-term,
high-impact partnership.
-- Strategic Partnership Excellence: Capgemini has been awarded the
Strategic Partnership Excellence Award for their leadership in
co-innovation and joint go-to-market execution. Their work developing
accelerators for large-scale API migrations and AI Gateway use cases
showcases their ability to anticipate market needs and deliver solutions
at scale. With a strong culture of collaboration, Capgemini and Kong
help enterprises modernize faster and with greater confidence.
-- Digital Transformation Excellence: Accenture has been honored with the
Digital Transformation Excellence Award for modernizing one of the most
complex on-premise environments into a cloud-native, microservices-based
architecture with Kong and AWS. Their work reduced API latency by 40%,
enabled scalability up to 16,000 TPS, and delivered a future-ready
foundation for growth. Accenture's collaborative approach exemplifies
how Kong and its partners are accelerating digital transformation
globally.
To learn more about Kong's Partner Program, please visit https://konghq.com/partners.
About Kong Inc.
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API and AI technologies, is on a mission to empower companies to become "API-first" to advance and enable the AI era. They help organizations worldwide -- 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 @Kong.
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SOURCE Kong Inc.
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