Comparison

AWS App Mesh vs MOSN

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
MOSN35
Score
Vioscale score
AWS App Mesh65 / 100medium · 63%
MOSN35 / 100medium · 54%
Pricing
Free tier
AWS App Mesh
MOSN
Model
AWS App Meshfreemium
Price level
AWS App Meshlow
MOSNfree
Transparent
AWS App Mesh
MOSN
Integrations
Count
AWS App Mesh
MOSN6
Security
Disclosure policy
AWS App Mesh
MOSN
Fedramp
AWS App Mesh
MOSN
Gdpr
AWS App Mesh
MOSN
Hipaa
AWS App Mesh
MOSN
Iso27001
AWS App Mesh
MOSN
Pci
AWS App Mesh
MOSN
Scorecard
AWS App Mesh
MOSN3.4
Soc2
AWS App Mesh
MOSN
Reliability
Status page
AWS App Mesh
MOSN
Adoption
Dependent repos
AWS App Mesh
MOSN22
Github stars
AWS App Mesh
MOSN4,508
Activity
Commits last 30d
AWS App Mesh
MOSN0
Release
Cadence days
AWS App Mesh
MOSN62
History
AWS App Mesh
License
Spdx
AWS App Mesh
Language
Primary
AWS App Mesh
MOSNGo
Market
Availability

Capabilities

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

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

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

MOSN

A cloud-native network proxy platform written in Go, open-sourced by Ant Group and production-verified at scale. Supports multi-protocol communication and can integrate with Istio for Service Mesh or operate independently as a load balancer, API gateway, or Ingress controller.

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 ↗

MOSN

Open source
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Linux
AWS App Mesh
MOSN
CLI
AWS App Mesh
MOSN
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
AWS App Mesh
MOSN
Self-hosted
AWS App Mesh
MOSN

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.

MOSN

6 total
  • Istio
  • Envoy
  • Jaeger
  • Skywalking
  • Prometheus
  • Holmes
Independently observed

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