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    AWS App Mesh

    Score5.9 out of 10
    N/AAWS 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

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIstio 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

    VMware Avi Load Balancer

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AAVI Load balancer is a solution to Simplify application delivery with software-defined load balancers, web application firewall, and container ingress services for any application in any data center and cloud. It is available standalone and is now also available as an add-on to VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation.N/A
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    Considered Multiple Products
    Amazon AWS
    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 …
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    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
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    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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