en.Wedoany.com Reported - Kong Inc. recently launched an AI-assisted migration service called Kong Ascent, designed to help enterprises transform their APIs into states suitable for AI agents. By automating and accelerating the migration from traditional API management platforms to Kong Konnect, Ascent can reduce typical migration time by 50% or more.
AI agents are becoming a new type of API consumer alongside applications and human developers. Organizations need an API platform that can transform traditional APIs into agent-consumable interfaces, ensuring secure agent access, providing deep visibility into agent activities, and strictly controlling agent workflow costs. Traditional API management platforms, primarily designed for human developers and application-to-application integration, often lack native support for capabilities such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI-specific governance, agent observability, semantic control, and AI traffic management. Many enterprises thus face a gap between their AI ambitions and infrastructure capabilities.
Despite the clear need for modernization, the perceived risk of migration has historically been a barrier. Multi-year timelines, substantial consulting fees, and unpredictable switchover risks have led enterprises to prefer staying on outdated infrastructure.
Kong Ascent accelerates the transition to Kong Konnect by introducing AI automation throughout the migration lifecycle, complemented by human support from the Kong Professional Services team. This service enables organizations to migrate from legacy systems to a unified platform built for API, AI, event, and agent connectivity. Through Kong Konnect, organizations can expose APIs to AI agents, govern and secure agent access via an AI gateway, monitor and control AI traffic, and publish APIs and AI services through a developer and agent catalog, applying consistent governance across both traditional APIs and AI workloads.
Reza Shafii, Senior Vice President of Products at Kong, stated that the challenge lies in the fact that the APIs underpinning enterprise businesses were never designed to be discovered, governed, secured, and consumed by agents. Kong provides customers with the platform needed to make APIs agent-ready, and Ascent greatly accelerates this process. Kong Ascent is now available through Kong Professional Services for migrations from MuleSoft environments, with support for more platforms to follow. Migrating to Kong Konnect, a unified API and AI platform, enables customers to manage their APIs, events, and agents in one place.
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