Google Cloud → AWS and Azure
AWS and Azure equivalents of Cloud Service Mesh
The closest AWS equivalents of Google Cloud Cloud Service Mesh are Amazon ECS Service Connect, AWS App Mesh and Amazon VPC Lattice; on Azure, Istio-based service mesh add-on for AKS, Open Service Mesh (OSM) add-on for AKS, Azure Private Link and private endpoints, Application Gateway for Containers and Azure API Management.
About Cloud Service Mesh
| Provider | Google Cloud |
|---|---|
| Status | Generally available |
| What it is | Managed service mesh built on the open-source Istio APIs for GKE and other supported platforms, with mTLS, traffic management, and telemetry. |
| Documentation | docs.cloud.google.com |
| Pricing | Official pricing page |
Mappings (2)
| Capability | AWS | Match (GCP vs AWS) | Azure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Service mesh | Amazon ECS Service Connect, AWS App Mesh Retired | Partial match | Istio-based service mesh add-on for AKS, Open Service Mesh (OSM) add-on for AKS Deprecated |
| Service-to-service application networking | Amazon VPC Lattice | Partial match | Azure Private Link and private endpoints, Application Gateway for Containers, Azure API Management |
Service mesh Partial match
ECS Service Connect (and the retired App Mesh) map partly to Cloud Service Mesh, Google's managed service mesh based on the Istio APIs.
- Cloud Service Mesh is a full Istio-compatible mesh with mTLS and traffic policies; Service Connect is a simpler ECS-only service discovery and proxy feature.
- Cloud Service Mesh supports GKE and other supported platforms.
Service-to-service application networking Partial match
VPC Lattice maps partly to Cloud Service Mesh for service-to-service traffic management and security, combined with Private Service Connect for cross-network access.
- There is no single managed application-networking service spanning VMs, containers, and functions like Lattice.