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Date Published
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Nick Anderson
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761
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English
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Summary

Kong Konnect Cloud has introduced Multi-Region support, allowing customers to manage their entities across different regions using a unified interface, which aligns with the demand for distributed service architectures. This new feature is complemented by Custom Teams and Per-Entity Permissions, enabling organizations to assign roles specific to regions. The challenge of replicating data across regions led to the separation of authentication and authorization services, allowing for independent data replication behaviors while maintaining performance. The solution involved adopting eventual consistency through active-active database replication, which results in approximately a 750ms latency for data replication across regions. This latency is managed by automated clients using retries to handle temporary inconsistencies. The introduction of Multi-Region support marks a significant development in Kong Konnect Cloud's capabilities and is expected to drive further improvements in API distribution.