Amazon Web Services → Microsoft Azure
Azure equivalent of Amazon ECS Service Connect
AWS App Mesh was retired on Sep 30, 2026, and AWS points ECS users to ECS Service Connect (and VPC Lattice for cross-service networking).
About Amazon ECS Service Connect
| Provider | Amazon Web Services |
|---|---|
| Status | Generally available |
| What it is | Built-in service discovery and service-to-service traffic for ECS (managed Envoy proxy plus Cloud Map namespaces), with retries, timeouts, and traffic metrics. AWS's recommended replacement for App Mesh on ECS. |
| Documentation | docs.aws.amazon.com |
| Pricing | Official pricing page |
Azure mappings (1)
| Capability | Azure equivalent | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Service mesh | Istio-based service mesh add-on for AKS, Open Service Mesh (OSM) add-on for AKS Deprecated | Partial match |
Kubernetes(1)
Service mesh Partial match
AWS App Mesh was retired on Sep 30, 2026, and AWS points ECS users to ECS Service Connect (and VPC Lattice for cross-service networking). On Azure, the supported mesh is the Istio-based add-on for AKS. The Open Service Mesh add-on loses support on Sep 30, 2027.
- Both clouds retired their first-party Envoy/SMI-style meshes (App Mesh, OSM) in favor of other options. AWS chose ECS-native Service Connect and VPC Lattice. Azure chose managed Istio.
- On EKS, AWS has no managed mesh, so run Istio, Linkerd, or Cilium yourself, or use VPC Lattice. On Azure Container Apps, Dapr and the built-in Envoy ingress cover many mesh use cases.
- The Istio add-on has its own version support window and revision-based (canary) upgrades. It doesn't support automatic upgrades, even on AKS Automatic.