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AWS App Mesh vs. Istio

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS App Mesh
Score 6.3 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
Istio
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Istio is an open source service mesh that layers transparently onto existing distributed applications. Istio’s features provide a uniform way to secure, connect, and monitor services. Istio is the path to load balancing, service-to-service authentication, and monitoring.N/A
Pricing
AWS App MeshIstio
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AWS App MeshIstio
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
AWS App MeshIstio
Considered Both Products
AWS App Mesh
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Chose AWS App Mesh
We conducted a comparative comparison between AWS App Mesh and Azure AKS with Istio to better understand strengths, weaknesses and architectural differences between two services. While it provided a more managed and integrated experience, its feature limitations and upcoming …
Istio

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Best Alternatives
AWS App MeshIstio
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Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
AWS App MeshIstio
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(2 ratings)
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Usability
6.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
AWS App MeshIstio
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
If your workloads are primarily based on AWS infrastrucure, where you might have EC2, EKS, Cloud Watch solutions, this service is native and good for you to maintain application level metworking. Also if you want to assess how secure inter service traffic could be achieved without a lot of custom writing, AWS App Mesh is a fine solution.
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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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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Complex setup and configuration - should provide a simplified onboarding process.
  • There is no RBAC style policies, which could improve security and control
  • No native rate limiting and circuit breaking.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
We rated AWS App Mesh as part of a comparison with Microsoft Azure AKS + Istio. While we rated its usability 6/10, recognizing its strengths in AWS-native integration, the difficult learning curve and limited flexibility made it less appealing for broader use. Also AWS announced the retirement of AWS App Mesh by the end of this year.
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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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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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