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This is great to see, the MCP specification has been finally donated to The Linux Foundation. This means that we are finally promoting MCP as a de-facto standard to a de-jure standard that every major AI player will adopt. At Kong Inc. we have been strong believers of MCP since day 1, and this news solidifies that together with our customers we were always on the right track to fully commit to the spec and provide the most advanced MCP capabilities in the industry in our AI Gateway. You can learn more about Kong's MCP capabilities at https://lnkd.in/e-6BhUgV The news is at https://lnkd.in/evsWRmtn

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The excitement around AI agents and MCP is justified, but so is the risk. Many organizations are deploying agents without proper governance, leading to budget surprises and security blind spots. Every action an agent takes is an API call. Uncontrolled, these workflows can lead to runaway token consumption and compliance headaches. "Guidelines" aren't governance. Companies need to enforce policies at the API level before you scale. An AI Gateway provides the critical control point to apply automated guardrails, ensuring you can harness the power of agents without losing control.

🤖 Wonder what it really takes to run AI in production today? Mark your calendars for our webinar, "From Experiment to Enterprise: Operationalizing AI in 2026" on December 11th. Our CTO and co-founder, Marco Palladino, and Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager, Dan Temkin, will cover: 🔹 What enterprise-grade AI looks like in practice 🔹 How to bake governance and observability into every layer of your architecture 🔹 Why a modern API platform is emerging as the backbone of real-world AI systems Register now to save your spot! https://bit.ly/4pRHPvI

🧠 Just got a great snapshot of the future of API and AI governance at apidays 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀! The talk "From Chaos to Order: How to Konnect, secure and observe your LLM traffic and the MCP using the Kong Inc. 𝗔𝗜 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝘆" by Jerome GUILLAUME highlighted key strategies for managing complex AI systems. Key takeaways:   • 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆 and 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻 your AI workflows using 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁.   • Mastering traffic control and observability for LLM-based architectures.   • Solving critical challenges like 𝗠𝗖𝗣 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆, 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀. Want to dive deeper into securing and scaling your AI/LLM traffic? ➡️ 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵 (Booth Number 🪧A08) to chat with the team and see a live demo! #APIDaysParis #KongKonnect #AIGateway #LLMs #APIs #AI

🎯𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐈 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞: 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐈 𝐆𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐲 + 𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐬 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐈 𝐆𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐲 abstracts STT, LLM, and TTS models through unified routes, providing secure API management, traffic control, and observability. 𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐬 delivers high-performance inference with its Wafer-Scale Engine and optimized LLM models like Qwen-3-32B. ✅ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭: Developers focus on agent logic while the infrastructure handles orchestration, security, and monitoring—demonstrated with LiveKit for seamless bi-directional audio streaming. Perfect for organizations building scalable AI agents with cost optimization and compliance built in. Read more ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dysJBDDH Massive kudos and thank you to Claudio Acquaviva for the insightful blog! 👏

🚀 At AWS re:Invent, Kong Inc. and Amazon Web Services (AWS) spotlighted a major shift: governance at the infrastructure layer, not glued on service-by-service. As multi-agent systems pop up everywhere, teams are struggling with fragmented policies, scattered data sources, and what some execs called “un-governance.” Kong’s AI Gateway + AWS alignment aims to give enterprises a single place to enforce guardrails across agents, APIs, microservices, and multi-cloud environments, especially for regulated industries that can’t afford inconsistency. Why it matters: • 68.3% of orgs rank security + compliance as a top priority • 70.1% plan to boost AI/ML adoption • Governance debt is piling up fast If this partnership keeps evolving, it could become a reference pattern for how enterprises standardize AI governance as agent ecosystems move into production. Read more by Paul Nashawaty here: https://lnkd.in/eey5txkD #theCUBEResearch #EfficientlyConnected #AIGovernance #AWS #Kong #AgenticAI

👏 That's a wrap on Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2025! A few highlights from the week include: 🔹 A great session from Alex Drag on "Building a State of the Art Agentic Infrastructure" 🔹 Happy hours with partners and customers 🔹 Standing room only for lightning talks 🔹 Handing out every single gorilla we brought with us 🔹 Countless conversations about the future of AI and APIs Thank you to everyone who engaged with us this week! Comment below with your highlights from the conference. 👀