Dedicated Cloud Gateways

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Dedicated Cloud Gateways are Data Plane nodes that are fully managed by Kong in Konnect. Each Dedicated Cloud Gateway runs on isolated infrastructure within Kong-managed environments in AWS, Azure, or GCP — offering the performance and security of dedicated infrastructure with the operational ease of SaaS.

With Dedicated Cloud Gateways, you don’t need to host any Data Planes, and you maintain control over the size and location of the Gateway infrastructure. This allows Kong to autoscale your nodes for you and reduces your operational complexity.

Behind the scenes, every Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateway runs in an individual single-tenant cloud environment, ensuring consistent performance, tenant isolation, and strong security boundaries. The Konnect Control Plane remains multi-tenant.

Benefits of Dedicated Cloud Gateways:

  • Konnect handles Gateway upgrades for you.
  • Choose between public and private networking modes.
  • Automatic scaling with Autopilot mode.
  • Support for AWS, Azure, and GCP in multiple regions.

You can manage your Dedicated Cloud Gateway nodes in Gateway Manager.

 
flowchart TD
A(Dedicated Cloud Gateway Control Plane)
B(Managed Data Plane Node Region 1)
C(Managed Data Plane Node Region 2)

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A
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A --auto-scale configuration---> B
A --auto-scale configuration---> C

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Networking

AWS

Dedicated Cloud Gateways support both public and private networking on AWS. Private networking provides enhanced security by restricting API exposure.

GCP

Dedicated Cloud Gateways support both private DNS and VPC peering for Google Cloud.

Azure

Konnect can leverage Azure virtual network peering to create virtual networks, ingest data from your provider’s services, and expose them to the internet via Konnect.

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