Kong Konnect Service Catalog Now Supports AWS Auto Discovery

Kong Konnect unifies API discovery across AWS  and other gateways, enabling secure, agent-ready access at scale

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API and AI technologies, today announced the general availability of the latest update to Konnect Service Catalog, which now includes native integration with AWS API Gateway. With this release, enterprises can seamlessly discover, visualize and govern APIs deployed in AWS alongside those managed by Kong and other tools, bringing multi-gateway visibility and control under a single pane of glass.

This latest update to Konnect Service Catalog was introduced today at API Summit 2025. Konnect Service Catalog represents a huge step forward towards solving one of the most persistent challenges in large-scale API lifecycle management: API sprawl and lack of visibility across fragmented infrastructure. Fragmented API deployments across cloud providers and teams often result in isolated silos, complicating discovery, governance and secure access. This can hinder innovation and introduce risks. For platform and security teams, it creates a blind spot that makes it difficult to enforce consistent, enterprise-wide governance. For developers, it creates friction in discovering and using the APIs they need to build, automate and innovate. 

"Sprawl has proven to be a persistent challenge for developers, and multi-gateway infrastructures compound the problem. As enterprises prepare for a future where agents will consume most APIs, having a unified source of truth becomes mission critical," said Reza Shafii, Senior Vice President of Product at Kong Inc. "The updated Konnect Service Catalog brings the APIs running in AWS into the same view as the rest of your services. It unlocks a new model of access and gives platform teams the governance tools they need to manage API sprawl with confidence."

Solving API Sprawl for Human and Non-Human Consumers

Many large enterprises run multiple API gateways across business units, geographies and cloud environments. AWS API Gateway is one of the most popular, chosen for its ease of use in native AWS workloads. But this fractured deployment landscape can lead to poor visibility and inconsistent controls across the enterprise.

With this new integration, Kong Konnect automatically discovers and ingests REST APIs deployed in AWS API Gateway, bringing them into a unified service catalog alongside Kong-managed and other third-party APIs. Once ingested, these APIs appear in the same catalog view as APIs managed natively by Kong Gateway. This unified catalog is essential for both human developers and M2M clients such as LLMs and AI agents, which require programmatic access to APIs for automation, inference, orchestration and more.

With a single location in Konnect Service Catalog to discover APIs across all gateways, organizations can:

• Reduce duplication and complexity across teams
• Feed internal agents and AI workloads with complete API inventory
• Establish consistent access policies regardless of API origin

Enforcing Governance with Scorecards

In addition to improving visibility, the AWS integration enhances governance by extending Service Catalog Scorecards to APIs discovered in AWS. Platform and security teams can now define custom compliance criteria such as authentication status, ownership metadata, monitoring coverage and more, and automatically measure every API against those standards.

If an API is missing critical controls or documentation, Konnect Service Catalog scorecards provide remediation guidance directly within the UI, enabling faster resolution and improved overall API hygiene. This gives enterprises a powerful toolset to operationalize API governance at scale — even across third-party gateways.

Availability

The AWS API Gateway integration is available today and can be configured in just a few clicks from within the Konnect Service Catalog using AWS IAM role delegation for secure, least-privilege access. Additional integrations are planned to support other gateway and platform providers as Kong continues to expand its vision of centralized, agent-ready API infrastructure.

For more information about Konnect Service Catalog visit: https://konghq.com/products/kong-konnect/features/api-service-catalog.

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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