AWS App Mesh

AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking for microservices by:

1. Managing service-to-service communication through:

• Traffic routing and shaping

• Circuit breaking

• Retries and timeouts

• Service discovery

1. Key features:

• End-to-end visibility

• Automated load balancing

• Blue-green deployments

• Canary releases

• Integration with AWS services (ECS, EKS, EC2)

1. Core components:

• Virtual services

• Virtual nodes

• Virtual routers

• Routes

• Virtual gateways

Best suited for complex microservices architectures needing advanced traffic management and observability.