AWS App Mesh vs. Kong Konnect

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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Using Kong [Konnect]'s declarative settings, a user may control traffic, automate deployment, and maintain container-based software after it's deployed. In addition, it handles the whole lifecycle of service management. Installation, management, and operation of Kong [Konnects]'s cloud-native connection runtimes may be performed in any cloud or Kubernetes provider environment, as well as on-premises environments. In order to optimise their services and transactions, users may keep track of their services and transactions in real-time via real-time monitoring.

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• 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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• Application orchestration
• Error tracing
• Analyzing traffic
• Load balancing

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• 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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• Community support
• Sample projects for easy integration

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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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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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• 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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• Increased application efficiency
• Reduced system downtown
• Significantly improved error resolution

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