Event streaming is a crucial component for building real-time applications that require scalability and support for high concurrency, and the event gateway pattern plays a vital role in managing access and control to this infrastructure. By utilizing the Kong Konnect Kafka Upstream plugin, companies can create an event gateway on top of Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) with advanced API management capabilities. This setup uses Kong Gateway to provide a centralized layer for orchestrating microservices, offering features like authentication, rate limiting, and real-time monitoring, while its extensibility allows for integration with various backend services. The Kong Gateway supports hybrid deployments, adding flexibility to cloud migration projects, and when combined with Amazon MSK, it can enhance service connectivity for modern architectures. The blog post details the process of deploying a Kong data plane on an Amazon EKS cluster, configuring an Amazon MSK cluster, and using the Kong Gateway to manage event streaming while ensuring security and efficient API management.