# AWS App Mesh Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Service Mesh Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/service-mesh-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About AWS App Mesh AWS App Mesh makes it easy to monitor and control microservices running on AWS. App Mesh standardizes how your microservices communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and helping to ensure high-availability for your applications. ## AWS App Mesh Reviews ### 1. Easy deploy for legacy apps **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lorenzo R. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS App Mesh?** Dashboard metrics and observability in general. **What do you dislike about AWS App Mesh?** Easy to start, a little cumbersome at first **What problems is AWS App Mesh solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deploy some legacy applications ### 2. Every type of services for application level networking **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Souprit S. | Web Design Intern, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS App Mesh?** Usually, AWS App Mesh is best than others because it offers one of the top market company Amazon. And it provides high-level security for our application. AWS App Mesh helps me to feel the smooth experience of application-level networking. AWS App Mesh provides every kind of service like consistent visibility, traffic controls, high availability of your applications. It allows us to quickly pinpoint the exact location of errors. Also, change the traffic route when there are visible errors, not require to change the code. **What do you dislike about AWS App Mesh?** Nothing about the AWS App Mesh services I dislike. Personally, I love all services. No need to update the coding to how monitoring data is collected or traffic is routed between services. Also, I really like it for it's offered 12 months of free services to gain experience. I recommended it to all please use it for 12 months free and if you do not like services unsubscribe it. **Recommendations to others considering AWS App Mesh:** I always recommend AWS App Mesh to all. AWS App Mesh is a managed, reliable, secure, and highly available service. It allows you to manage service communications without needing to install or manage application-level infrastructure for communications management. Also, AWS App Mesh services give end-to-end visibility and helping to ensure high availability for your application. **What problems is AWS App Mesh solving and how is that benefiting you?** I realize AWS App Mesh help me to get my business next level. Using AWS App Mesh I save my lords of working effort and also cost by migrating to fully managed databases. Also, it helps automatically traffic load from all clients in the application and removes load balancing endpoints based on health check-ups and service registrations. And also it helps us to provides application-level networking to make it easy for my services to communicate with each other across multiple types of computing infrastructure. ### 3. AppMesh is great! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shishir B. | S, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS App Mesh?** AWS AppMesh's flexibility to support multiple cloud-compute infrastructures is fantastic. This allows for the organic growth of evolving application architectures **What do you dislike about AWS App Mesh?** Nothing specific at this time. The End-to-End visibility feature is great. The logs exported to cloudwatch can be sometimes difficult to read given the format. **What problems is AWS App Mesh solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Enhanced network security - Flexibility in terms of supporting ECS and EKS - Optimal network architecture ### 4. AWS App Mesh: Networking for Microservices **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS App Mesh?** 1. Works well with all AWS compute infrastructures such as Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate 2. It provides consistent visibility and network traffic controls, and helps you deliver secure services 3. Provides monitoring data of all the services **What do you dislike about AWS App Mesh?** 1. Doesn't work well with services outside AWS environment 2. Doesn't have an inbuild dashboard **What problems is AWS App Mesh solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was looking for a service mesh for our microservices application running in AWS ECS. With AWS App Mesh we were able to set up the service mesh with ease and also scale it for other projects. ### 5. AWS App Mesh is one of the best end-to-end visible high secure networking services for our app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Haradhan D. | WEB Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS App Mesh?** AWS App Mesh a service specially offered by amazon one of the top market-leading company. And that's why it's really secure and also their support team is really helpful for us. Their AWS App Mesh is one of the best service providers as per me. They provided the best secure investment of application-level networking to make it easy for all services to communicate across multiple types of computing infrastructure. **What do you dislike about AWS App Mesh?** Especially pricing is too high genuinely say a small company cannot afford on their startups face. But overall system support is really won my attention and also their security level is too high. Everything comes with good and bad things but in this case, if you finding a reliable system for your application AWS App Mesh is the best choice for you. For all those following reasons I cannot dislike anything about AWS App Mesh. **Recommendations to others considering AWS App Mesh:** This is one of the best products in this segment. This is a perfect, secure, and reliable end-to-end application computing interface. I always recommended AWS App Mesh to each user who actually working on this segment. **What problems is AWS App Mesh solving and how is that benefiting you?** It actually solves our multiple problems like AWS App Mesh their overall system is really easy to use. And also their system is really fast and secure than others. Also, their User interface is really user-friendly. Observability, Resiliency, Security, Traffic control, Less code for Devs and Ops, and more application-related issues are solving with AWS App Mesh. ### 6. Excellent for Students. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joao P. | customer experience, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS App Mesh?** It's a cloud web service and I mainly use it for my management course, so I make this service to help us with computing and storage needs. **What do you dislike about AWS App Mesh?** This can be a confusing service for people and I would not recommend it for beginners, but rather for people who work in the field and who would likely use this type of system with networks and global data. **What problems is AWS App Mesh solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working with this helps to understand the ground stations and creates a graphical console that helps us work with the antennas we are computing and testing! I would say that this provides a great learning experience for engineers, electrical engineers, and other computer engineers! ### 7. the best of cloud computing web services! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oluwasunny A. | Head Of Human Resources, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS App Mesh?** AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, AWS CloudFormation, AWS SDKs, Cryptographically signing your service requests, Retrying requests and Handling error responses **What do you dislike about AWS App Mesh?** For me, there isn't much to dislike. maybe needing to add a few lines of code on the framework to get started **What problems is AWS App Mesh solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem that I am solving with AWS App Mesh is high performance at a low cost. Some benefits that I have realized include speech recognition, image processing, fraud detection, and natural language processing. ### 8. The Second Person Taking Care Of Your Application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Munaveer C. | Digital Marketing Executive, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS App Mesh?** While Using This Service, It Reducing Latency, Increasing The Observability Of My Application. Also, It Provides End-To-End Visibility And High Availability For Your Applications. They Provided The Best Secure Investment Of Application-Level Networking **What do you dislike about AWS App Mesh?** While There IS Not Much To Dislike. Except, The Pricing Should Be More Affordable To New Users. **What problems is AWS App Mesh solving and how is that benefiting you?** We Can Say It Solves Different Issues We Faced On Our Application, and It Is Very Easy To use The Best Service I Recommend To Beginner The User Interface Is Too Simple. Observability, Security, and more application related issues are solving with AWS App Mesh ### 9. Amazing service to communicate across multiple infrastructures **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS App Mesh?** Provides great application level networking providing network traffic control and helps to safely deloy erros and code changes. You can run it at scale using Amazon EC2, AWS fargate and also integrates with AWS Outposts. Uses the open source envoy proxy and is very easy to integrate. **What do you dislike about AWS App Mesh?** There is nothing I dislike. AWS App Mesh provides visibility andn helps to deliver secure services. Is very easy to use. I recommend it! **What problems is AWS App Mesh solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS App Mesh has a wide variety of features to choose and you get end to end visibility while enhancing network security. Its a great service mesh. Provides control to standarize traffic and removes the need to write custom codes. It helped to save time and efforts. Connections are secure and helps you to optimize your entire application. ### 10. Service Discovery the Amazon Way **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Relations and Communications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS App Mesh?** AWS App Mesh is free, easy to use, completely managed, and so far, rock-solid reliable. **What do you dislike about AWS App Mesh?** There's not much to dislike about App Mesh; it performs a relatively simple task and does so very well. **What problems is AWS App Mesh solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use AWS App Mesh for microservice discovery and request routing. It is seemingly designed to support Amazon ECS, the tool we use for container management. ### 11. Great control to standarize traffic **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS App Mesh?** Provides visibility and helps to deliver great secure services. You can simply run it at scale using Amazon AWS fargate and Outposts. **What do you dislike about AWS App Mesh?** There is nothing I dislike. Aws uses the open source envoy proxy and has a wide variety of features to choose. I recommend it! **What problems is AWS App Mesh solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great application level networking, removes the need to write custome codes. You get end to end visibility while enhancing network security. Is very easy to integrate ### 12. Enhance network security **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS App Mesh?** It is an amazing service to communicate across multiple infrastructures. It is very easy to use and to integrate. It has a wide variety of tools to customize. It integrates with AWS Outposts. **What do you dislike about AWS App Mesh?** Nothing. AWS provides a great application-level networking. **What problems is AWS App Mesh solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps to safely deploy a proxy and provides more control to standardize traffic and deliver secure services and code changes. ### 13. Great service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS App Mesh?** The ability to route traffic based or path **What do you dislike about AWS App Mesh?** None yet, its proven to be best for path based routing **What problems is AWS App Mesh solving and how is that benefiting you?** Service for indexing of features ### 14. Easy way of communicating related to services **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darshan J. | Business Process Analyst , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS App Mesh?** Easily provides service level networking within multiple users **What do you dislike about AWS App Mesh?** Nothing about this i dislike ..every application or so has some disadvantages so that's fine. **Recommendations to others considering AWS App Mesh:** Try using it ..really helpful **What problems is AWS App Mesh solving and how is that benefiting you?** User friendly Application ## AWS App Mesh Discussions - [Yes i liked is very beautiful](https://www.g2.com/discussions/yes-i-liked-is-very-beautiful-b99c7c24-f15e-4789-bcc9-65215513e728) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View AWS App Mesh pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-app-mesh/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-04+18%3A30%3A45+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=0e8751ef-6d5f-4431-ad90-f06b4368a767&secure%5Btoken%5D=7fc6f2e89238c0d7024443cfa814190bc579d2c0c66b62baaf83484ecdaaeca5&format=llm_user) ## AWS App Mesh Features **Functionality** - Supported Protocols - Container Orchestration - Extensibility - Monitoring **Cloud Visibility** - Data Discovery - Cloud Registry - Cloud Gap Analytics **Networking** - Networking - Load Balancing - Traffic Filtering - Service Discovery **Security** - Data Security - Data loss Prevention - Security Auditing **Protection** - Policy Management - Secure Communications **Identity** - SSO - Governance - User Analytics ## Top AWS App Mesh Alternatives - [Istio](https://www.g2.com/products/istio/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (18 reviews) - [HashiCorp Consul](https://www.g2.com/products/hashicorp-consul/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (20 reviews) - [Linkerd](https://www.g2.com/products/linkerd/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (9 reviews)