G2

Atharva P.

Cloud BI Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/18/2026

"Consistent Microservices Networking with AWS App Mesh—Traffic Control, Observability, and mTLS"

4.5/5

What do you like best about AWS App Mesh?

What I like most about AWS App Mesh is that it delivers consistent networking, traffic management, observability, and security for microservices without requiring changes to application code. It lets teams manage service-to-service communication centrally, while still supporting capabilities such as traffic shifting, retries, circuit breaking, and mutual TLS (mTLS).

I also appreciate its integration with Envoy Proxy, which makes it straightforward to apply advanced networking features to containerized applications running on AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS App Mesh?

App Mesh has a steeper learning curve than traditional application networking. It takes time to get comfortable with service mesh concepts and the details of Envoy configuration, including virtual services, virtual routers, and traffic policies. In my experience, it also tends to be more beneficial for larger microservices architectures than for smaller applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS App Mesh solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS App Mesh helps address service-to-service communication, traffic control, and observability challenges in microservices environments.

Example:

We used App Mesh to manage communication between containerized services running on Amazon ECS. For a new application release, we gradually shifted a small percentage of production traffic to the new version using weighted routing. After monitoring performance and error rates, we increased traffic step by step until the deployment was fully rolled out.

This approach reduced deployment risk while improving application reliability and overall visibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.