Kong Inc. Honors Its Partners at the 2025 Partner Awards Ceremony

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.

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