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AWS App Mesh
Application-level networking for microservices on AWS
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Scalability
very high
Performance
high
Learning Curve
moderate
Maturity
stable
Languages: Envoy
Architecture: service-mesh, sidecar
When to Use
- +AWS-only
- +Managed solution
- +ECS/EKS workloads
When Not to Use
- -Multi-cloud
- -Advanced mesh features
Strengths
- AWS native
- Managed Envoy
- Good observability
- Free
Weaknesses
- AWS only
- Less features than Istio
Operations
Maintenance
low
Monitoring
low
Backup/Recovery
simple
Hosting: managed
Quick Facts
- Category
- Service Mesh
- License
- commercial
- Pricing
- free (free tier)
- Community
- medium
- Docs Quality
- good
- Trend
- stable
- Vendor Lock-in
- high
- Data Portability
- moderate
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
mediumlargeenterprise
Use Cases
- AWS microservices
- Traffic management
- Observability
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