AWS App Mesh vs. IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS App Mesh
Score 8.2 out of 10
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AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute infrastructure. App Mesh aims to give end-to-end visibility and high-availability for applications. There is no additional charge for using AWS App Mesh. Users pay for the AWS resources (EC2 instances or requested Fargate CPU and memory) consumed by the proxy that is deployed alongside containers.N/A
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Score 8.7 out of 10
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The IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides the Managed Istio installation add on, designed to provide additonal control over clusters and the microservices they comprise via automatic updates and lifecycle management of control plane components, and integration with platform logging and monitoring tools.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros

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Features
AWS App MeshIBM Cloud Managed Istio
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
AWS App Mesh
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Ratings
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
8.0
5 Ratings
2% below category average
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings6.95 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings8.75 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.55 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings8.15 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings7.25 Ratings
Best Alternatives
AWS App MeshIBM Cloud Managed Istio
Small Businesses

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AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 8.7 out of 10
IBM Cloud Private
IBM Cloud Private
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 8.7 out of 10
IBM Cloud Private
IBM Cloud Private
Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
AWS App MeshIBM Cloud Managed Istio
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.7
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS App MeshIBM Cloud Managed Istio
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Useful in scenarios where we use a complex microservices-based implementation with the complexity of inter-service communication. Can use App Mesh with services running on any compute services such as Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and Amazon EC2. Can be used to isolate errors and pinpoint the error location and also to re-route.
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IBM
Clearly, the [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] tool is very useful when you have multiple services and each service is connecting with other services through APIs in different networks. To manage this type of complex network, [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] is very useful. It comes with a license that can increase the billing of your project so make sure if your application network mesh, monitoring cannot be managed on your own then you can use it. If your application is not very complex then you have many tools available like Grafana, Prometheus, Sumo Logic, which you can integrate individually with your cluster and implement. In this type of scenario, it is better to not use [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] and it will serve your purpose as well.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Standardization of microservices communication.
  • Traceability and visibility of communication across microservices.
  • Identify and Isolate issues in microservices communication.
  • Monitoring and sending data to CloudWatch.
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IBM
  • Layers transparently onto existing applications
  • Allows control of access and rules to be developed
  • Creates metrics for usage
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Increase the limit of for a set of resources: virtual nodes and virtual gateways.
  • Expert availability: not easy to find experts.
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IBM
  • Some more functionalities added could improve it better.
  • Better technical user guidance.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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IBM
Training and usage support available
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
Istio is high on operational costs as compared to AppMesh. HIgher learning curve for Istio as compared to AppMesh. Multi cluster support in AWS. App Mesh has IAM integration which is a plus for AWS workloads.
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IBM
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • High ROI as it facilitates operational monitoring and root cause analysis.
  • Ensures to re-route and distribute traffic sustaining operational availability and performance - +ve for ROI.
  • Service discovery enables service run time governance - +ve for ROI.
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IBM
  • It reduced the complexity of network mesh (ingress/egress services).
  • One tool with many solutions. No need to integrate monitoring tools or notification tools.
  • It reduced the number of lines of YAML code.
  • It reduced the number of labor hours.
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