AWS App Mesh is a service mesh based on the Envoy proxy that makes it easy to monitor and control containerized microservices. App Mesh standardizes how your microservices communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and helping to ensure high-availability for your applications. App Mesh gives you consistent visibility and network traffic controls for every microservice in an application. You can use App Mesh with Amazon ECS (using the Amazon EC2 launch type), Amazon EKS, and Kubernetes on AWS.
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Amazon EKS, Amazon EC2, Kubernetes, Envoy, Amazon EC2 Container Service are some of the popular tools that integrate with AWS App Mesh. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with AWS App Mesh.