Envoy Proxy vs. Istio
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Envoy Proxy | Score10 out of 10 | N/A | Envoy Proxy is an open-source Layer 7 (and Layer 4) proxy. It runs as a sidecar next to services, as an edge proxy in front of a cluster, or as the data plane under a control plane. In a Service Mesh, every hop of east-west traffic can flow through Envoy so routing, retries, mutual TLS, and observability sit in one process instead of in each application. It does not execute application business logic and it does not run model weights. | N/A |
 Istio | Score9 out of 10 | N/A | 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 |
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