Comparison

AWS App Mesh vs Gloo Mesh

On the evidence we track, AWS App Mesh leads this comparison with a composite score of 65/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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AWS App Mesh65
Gloo Mesh34
Score
Vioscale score
AWS App Mesh65 / 100medium · 63%
Gloo Mesh34 / 100low · 33%
Pricing
Free tier
AWS App Mesh
Gloo Mesh
Model
AWS App Meshfreemium
Gloo Meshquote
Price level
AWS App Meshlow
Gloo Meshunknown
Transparent
AWS App Mesh
Gloo Mesh
Integrations
Count
AWS App Mesh
Gloo Mesh4
Security
Disclosure policy
AWS App Mesh
Gloo Mesh
Fedramp
AWS App Mesh
Gloo Mesh
Gdpr
AWS App Mesh
Gloo Mesh
Hipaa
AWS App Mesh
Gloo Mesh
Iso27001
AWS App Mesh
Gloo Mesh
Pci
AWS App Mesh
Gloo Mesh
Soc2
AWS App Mesh
Gloo Mesh
Reliability
Status page
AWS App Mesh
Gloo Mesh

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

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

Gloo Mesh

Gloo Mesh is a service mesh platform offering both sidecar and sidecarless architecture options for Kubernetes environments, with built-in security policies for authentication, authorization, and rate limiting across distributed services.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

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 ↗

Gloo Mesh

Quote-based

Custom pricing based on deployment size and environment

as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
AWS App Mesh
Gloo Mesh
Self-hosted
AWS App Mesh
Gloo Mesh

Integrations

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

AWS App Mesh

Leader

Not documented yet.

Gloo Mesh

4 total
  • Istio
  • Envoy
  • Kubernetes
  • OpenTelemetry
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.