Organizations today face the challenge of balancing developer agility with enterprise governance when deploying APIs, and the text explores three deployment models—siloed, centralized, and federated—to address this. The siloed model offers flexibility and innovation for individual business units but can lead to security risks and operational complexity due to lack of standardization. The centralized model ensures standardization and governance but may slow down innovation due to reliance on a central team. The federated model, which is gaining traction, offers a middle ground by empowering developers with self-service infrastructure while maintaining governance through infrastructure-as-code and centralized oversight. This model allows for both flexibility and compliance, fostering innovation and reducing latency by enabling developers to deploy APIs closer to their microservices. Tools like Kong Konnect facilitate this federated approach by providing a centralized control plane for policy enforcement while supporting distributed data planes for performance optimization, thus ensuring agility, scalability, and consistent governance in API management.