Kong Inc. Honors Its Partners at the 2025 Partner Awards Ceremony
On October 14, 2025, Kong Inc. held its highly anticipated Partner Awards ceremony at the Partner Summit 2025 in New York City. This annual event showcases the exceptional achievements of partners within the Kong ecosystem, recognizing those who have made significant contributions to advancing cloud API and AI technologies.
During the event, Ken Kim, Senior Vice President of Business Development at Kong, expressed his admiration for this year’s award winners. He emphasized that the honorees exemplify the spirit of innovation and impact that the Kong partner network embodies. "This year's winners illustrate how our ecosystem leverages APIs and AI to create tangible business value. Congratulations to all of them," stated Kim.
Highlighted Winners of the 2025 Partner Awards
Partner of the Year - Global: AWS
AWS secured the title of Partner of the Year Global, acknowledged for its remarkable influence on business growth and customer success. By integrating its robust infrastructure with Kong Konnect, AWS provides cutting-edge API and AI solutions, facilitating customers' journey toward innovation while maintaining performance, flexibility, and security.
Partner of the Year - AMS: Cognizant
Cognizant was awarded the Partner of the Year AMS award for its outstanding collaboration with Kong. Their unique approach, utilizing Kong Konnect and Kong Gateway across hybrid architectures, has greatly accelerated customer adoption, reduced onboarding costs, and improved overall market readiness.
Partner of the Year - EMEA: TCS
TCS earned recognition in EMEA for crafting a reliable hybrid API platform using Kong Konnect and AWS ECS Fargate. Their innovative solutions enabled enterprise modernization with impressive outcomes, including zero downtime and a 20% improvement in time-to-market.
Partner of the Year - APJ: Blulebik Vulcan Co., Ltd.
In APJ, Blulebik Vulcan Co., Ltd. was acknowledged for its achievements in driving enterprise transformations securely and at scale by modernizing legacy infrastructures with Kong Gateway Enterprise.
Innovation Excellence: Ensono
Ensono received the Innovation Excellence Award for developing a comprehensive API framework tailored for the financial services sector. This initiative underpins a national fraud prevention system, showcasing an exceptional capacity to process over one billion monthly API requests.
Technical Excellence: AHEAD
AHEAD won the Technical Excellence Award, celebrated for their outstanding architectural insight and their collaborative efforts in helping enterprises scale modern technologies efficiently.
Rising Star - AMS: Persistent
Persistent was recognized as the Rising Star in AMS due to its swift growth and significant investment in Kong’s platform, achieving robust operational efficiencies through a vendor-agnostic API management solution.
Rising Star - EMEA: Coforge
Coforge's rapid impact in advancing AI transformation and digital strategies garnered them the Rising Star in EMEA award, marking them as a partner to watch in the coming years.
Strategic Partnership Excellence: Capgemini
Capgemini's co-innovation initiatives and strategic execution in large-scale API migrations earned them the Strategic Partnership Excellence award.
Digital Transformation Excellence: Accenture
Accenture was honored with the Digital Transformation Excellence award for successfully modernizing complex infrastructures, enhancing system scalability significantly while reducing API latency.
Conclusion
The Partner Awards serve to highlight the outstanding work of Kong's partners, fostering an environment of continuous growth and innovation. With a commitment to empowering businesses through cutting-edge API and AI solutions, Kong continues to lead the way in the tech industry. For further insights into Kong and its partner initiatives, please visit
Kong's official site.