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Kong Konnect vs AWS API Gateway

Kong is a control-plane SaaS plus a self-hosted data plane. AWS is a fully-managed managed service. The decision is about who runs what.

Where AWS wins

Single-cloud, low-to-mid call volume, prefer fully-managed. HTTP API at $1.00 per million is hard to beat at small scale.

Where Kong wins

Multi-cloud, sovereignty constraints, hybrid on-prem, or buyers who already run an EKS platform team. Konnect's per-service billing decouples cost from raw call volume.

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Verified 20 June 2026 Oliver Wakefield-Smith, Founder, Digital Signet we mark quote when a vendor does not publish, and stop.