NTT Docomo has adopted Kong as the API gateway for LAMP, its front-end platform supporting customer-facing services and more than 90 million contract records. The implementation aims to improve service stability during traffic spikes while giving development teams greater flexibility to update applications.
Launched commercially in March 2024, LAMP separates customer-facing functions from ALADIN, Docomo’s legacy customer relationship management system. Managing configurations, coping with traffic spikes and safeguarding the back end became more challenging as the microservices architecture continued to grow. With the sunset of AWS App Mesh, the team began to seek out an alternative.
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Kong provides traffic control, centralised management and support for multiple authentication requirements within Docomo’s existing Amazon ECS environment. Also, it will explore the usage of operational monitoring driven by AI and wider use of API reuse. This step is driven by increasing demands from enterprises for scalable API management due to growing complexity of applications.


