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AWS App Mesh vs. IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS App Mesh
Score 8.3 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
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
AWS App MeshIBM Cloud Managed Istio
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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AWS App MeshIBM Cloud Managed Istio
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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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
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0% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
User Ratings
AWS App MeshIBM Cloud Managed Istio
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.7
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Support Rating
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6.4
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User Testimonials
AWS App MeshIBM Cloud Managed Istio
Likelihood to Recommend
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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It is a perfect application when you have multiple users and/or developers and you want to create rules and standards for access and the ability to change access levels. The reporting of usage is good, but adding more granularity into the metrics that have been used to measure are not specific enough. They provide detail but drilling into the detail would be more appropriate i.e. access to the baseline data.
Michael French | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael French
Senior Manager Workforce Planning - Project Managment
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Pros
  • 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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  • Debug issues
  • Monitoring
  • allows many services form many different sources
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Cons
  • 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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  • Still missing functionalities for a full usage as traffic director.
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Support Rating
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Training and usage support available
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Alternatives Considered
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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1) One-stop solution for all the complex network connectivity managed by [IBM Cloud Managed Istio]. 2) Nice dashboard to understand the flow. 3) Easy to troubleshoot the service if any one of the APIs is not responding. 4) We can integrate it with Azure Kubernetes service and other cloud provider Kubernetes services. 5) Monitoring the health of the pods can be easily configured and alerts can be triggered very accurately with this tool.
Sachin Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sachin Kumar
Infrastructure Engineer
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • Management burden is reduced resulting in positive ROI.
  • Application is being seamlessly instrumented with good impact on business.
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