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What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

Its very easy to configure. plenty of option available to run the data planes right from VMs to EKS etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Nothing to dislike so far. its a new product and takes away a lot of complexies from on-prem Kong mesh/gateway platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong Konnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Kong konnect for API Management. It very easy chose from a large number of ootb policies to protect and govern our APIs.

Most of our policies are around security i.e. Authentication and Authorization and QoS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Kong Konnect?

Streamlined SaaS API platform for multi-cloud environments Take the complexity out of API management, and build modern applications better, faster, and more securely. Kong Konnect empowers organizations to efficiently publish, consume, secure, analyze, and manage APIs and services across modern and legacy applications on any cloud, platform, protocol, or architecture.

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Kong Konnect 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.

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Kong Inc
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Powering the API World. No AI without APIs. Kong enables any company to become an API-first company. Kong’s unified cloud native API platform is easy to use and works in any environment — unleashing developer productivity, automating security, and boosting performance of APIs and microservices at scale.

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Mario R.
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Mario R.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"A fast API managent solution"
It is a very easy and with a vast range of features tool, and it could be integrated with many cloud environments, and on premises as well.
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Deepak K.
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Deepak K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Easy and Fast"
Its very easy to configure. plenty of option available to run the data planes right from VMs to EKS etc.
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Krishna S.
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Krishna S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Kong Konnect API Management with the power of cloud"
Can have our API deployed and live within a few minutes with dedicated cloud gateway. Integration with third party application like amazon cognito...
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Mario R.
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What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

It is a very easy and with a vast range of features tool, and it could be integrated with many cloud environments, and on premises as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

There are some wrong documentation, a high dependency of some beta plugins, and quite high costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong Konnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Rate limiting, microservices orchestration, api security, integration of apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

Can have our API deployed and live within a few minutes with dedicated cloud gateway.

Integration with third party application like amazon cognito and okta. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Low transparency of data kong is storing for our APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong Konnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Prebuilt developer portal allowed us to easily publish APIs to the outside world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

A very powerful orchestrator to manage lots of API products and leveraging the full power of API Gateway, Service Mesh, Kubernetes and other related tools, easily m,anaged from a nice web UI. You can count with Kong support to make sure your API products will be successfull. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Almost nothing, but the documentation could be a little more intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong Konnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kong Konnect allows you to easily manage sophisticated and complex API programs, involving multiple components necessary for modern microservices architectures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

Quick and Easy to start deploying APIs.

Provides different deployment options Hybrid and SaaS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Lack of monetization feature within the Developer Portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong Konnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Konnect helped in setting up a full fledged API gateway in minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

Very clean, simple interface, easy to spin up the API via service version, publish to the portal with swagger and can install runtime in your cloud account or on premises! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Not so easy to ascertain the gateway address in UI, and the RBAC is a bit confusing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong Konnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

service oriented architecture Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kong Konnect?

Simple, open, automated and standards based. plug-in based modular Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kong Konnect?

Steeper learning curve when learning the more technical features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kong Konnect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Secure and services discovery Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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