Comparison

Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh vs AWS App Mesh

On the evidence we track, AWS App Mesh leads this comparison with a composite score of 60/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh48
★AWS App Mesh60
Score
vioscaleAI score
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh48 / 100low · 47%
AWS App Mesh60 / 100medium · 69%
Pricing
Free tier
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh✓
AWS App Mesh✓
Model
Alibaba Cloud Service Meshfree
AWS App Meshfreemium
Price level
Alibaba Cloud Service Meshfree
AWS App Meshlow
Transparent
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh✗
AWS App Mesh✗
Integrations
Count
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh1
AWS App Mesh5
Security
Disclosure policy
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh–
AWS App Mesh✓
Fedramp
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh–
AWS App Mesh✓
Gdpr
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh–
AWS App Mesh✓
Hipaa
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh–
AWS App Mesh✓
Iso27001
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh–
AWS App Mesh✓
Pci
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh–
AWS App Mesh✓
Soc2
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh–
AWS App Mesh✓
Reliability
Status page
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh✓
AWS App Mesh✓
Market
Availability
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh–
Content
Faq
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh4 items
AWS App Mesh5 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for service mesh. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Architecture
Data plane
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
AWS App MeshSidecar
Proxy
Alibaba Cloud Service MeshEnvoy
AWS App MeshEnvoy
Security
Automatic mutual TLS
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
AWS App Mesh✓
SPIFFE / SPIRE identity
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
AWS App Mesh-
Traffic
Traffic splitting / canary
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
AWS App Mesh✓
Fault injection / resilience
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
AWS App Mesh-
Scale
Multi-cluster federation
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh✓
AWS App Mesh-
Portability
VM support (beyond Kubernetes)
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh✓
AWS App Mesh-
Observability
Built-in observability
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh✓
AWS App Mesh✓
Standards
Gateway API / GAMMA support
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
AWS App Mesh-
Extensibility
WASM extensibility
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
AWS App Mesh-
Compliance
FIPS mode
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
AWS App Mesh-
Ecosystem
CNCF maturity
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
AWS App MeshNone
Ops
Commercial support / enterprise edition
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
AWS App Mesh✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh

Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh (ASM) is a fully managed service mesh platform compatible with Istio that provides consistent traffic shaping, security, and observability for microservices across multiple Kubernetes clusters and virtual machines.

Independently observed

AWS App Mesh

Leader

AWS App Mesh is an application networking service that provides consistent visibility and network traffic controls for microservices. It uses sidecar proxies to manage service communication, observability, and security without requiring application code changes.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh

FreeFree tier
as of verify ↗

AWS App Mesh

Leader
Usage-basedFree tier

Pay-as-you-go usage-based pricing; specific pricing rates not disclosed on provided pages

as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh✓
AWS App Mesh✓
CLI
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh✗
AWS App Mesh✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh✓
AWS App Mesh✓
Hybrid
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh✓
AWS App Mesh✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh

1 total
  • Container Service for Kubernetes
Independently observed

AWS App Mesh

Leader
5 total
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • AWS X-Ray
  • Datadog
  • Alcide
  • Aqua
Independently observed
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