Ambassador Edge Stack

Spec sheet

Product

Edge Stack is a cloud-native API gateway that runs in Kubernetes.Read 9 Oct 2026 · documentation.gravitee.io

Intended users

The product is designed for cloud-native organizations where developers have operational responsibility for services, and for both developers and operators.Read 10 Oct 2026 · documentation.gravitee.io

Deployment

The product can be installed manually or with Helm.Read 10 Oct 2026 · documentation.gravitee.io

Integrations

It integrates with Istio as an edge proxy routing external traffic to the internal service mesh.Read 10 Oct 2026 · documentation.gravitee.io

Support

Gravitee says Ambassador customers can keep using the same support channels and teams, with ongoing improvements planned.Read 9 Oct 2026 · gravitee.io

Headquarters

Denver, Colorado, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · landing.gravitee.io

Founded

2015Read 28 Sep 2026 · landing.gravitee.io

Company

Gravitee says it was founded in 2015 by developers.Read 9 Oct 2026 · gravitee.io

Analytics

Federation aggregates reporting and usage analytics across Edge Stack and Gravitee Gateway.Read 9 Oct 2026 · landing.gravitee.io

Architecture

It uses Kubernetes for persistence, reliability, availability, and scaling, and Envoy for traffic routing and proxying.Read 10 Oct 2026 · documentation.gravitee.io

Authentication

It supports incoming request authentication through a custom authentication service, OAuth/OpenID Connect, or JWT.Read 10 Oct 2026 · documentation.gravitee.io

Availability

An Ambassador team article says Edge Stack capabilities are free to explore, but the page does not specify product plan prices or trial length.Read 9 Oct 2026 · gravitee.io

Developer portal

Developers can discover, subscribe to, and test Edge Stack and Gravitee APIs from the same developer portal.Read 9 Oct 2026 · landing.gravitee.io

Developer workflow

Developers can manage service deployments through Kubernetes resources or annotations without asking Operations to add services to the mesh.Read 10 Oct 2026 · documentation.gravitee.io

Diagnostics

It includes a diagnostics service for debugging configuration issues.Read 10 Oct 2026 · documentation.gravitee.io

Federation

Gravitee says Edge Stack APIs can be imported into Gravitee for unified governance, a shared developer portal, and centralized cross-gateway analytics.Read 10 Oct 2026 · landing.gravitee.io

Governance and security

Federation applies consistent access, security, and policy rules across Gravitee-managed and Edge Stack-managed APIs.Read 9 Oct 2026 · landing.gravitee.io

Integration

The Edge Stack federation agent can be run with Docker Compose or installed with Helm.Read 9 Oct 2026 · documentation.gravitee.io

Kubernetes permissions

The federation agent requires access to Edge Stack Mappings, Filters, FilterPolicies, and Secrets in the cluster.Read 9 Oct 2026 · documentation.gravitee.io

Pricing

The documentation says an Enterprise license is required and directs users to contact the company for licensing information.Read 10 Oct 2026 · documentation.gravitee.io

Product role

Ambassador Edge Stack is a Kubernetes edge gateway that routes traffic from the edge of a cluster to Kubernetes services.Read 10 Oct 2026 · documentation.gravitee.io

Protocols

It supports gRPC and HTTP/2 routing.Read 10 Oct 2026 · documentation.gravitee.io

Rate limiting

It can check incoming requests with a third-party rate limit service before routing them.Read 10 Oct 2026 · documentation.gravitee.io

Security and compliance

Gravitee’s Trust Center lists GDPR, HIPAA, ISO/IEC 27001, PCI DSS v4.0.0, and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance resources.Read 10 Oct 2026 · trust.gravitee.io

Traffic management

It supports canary deployments in which developers control the share of production traffic routed to a service version.Read 10 Oct 2026 · documentation.gravitee.io

Unified control plane

Gravitee’s Edge Stack federation lets users import Edge Stack APIs into Gravitee for management through one control plane.Read 9 Oct 2026 · landing.gravitee.io

Where Specifiction places it

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