Comparison

AWS App Mesh vs Red Hat OpenShift Service 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
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh51
Score
Vioscale score
AWS App Mesh65 / 100medium · 63%
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh51 / 100low · 26%
Pricing
Free tier
AWS App Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Model
AWS App Meshfreemium
Red Hat OpenShift Service Meshcommercial
Price level
AWS App Meshlow
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Transparent
AWS App Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Integrations
Count
AWS App Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh8
Security
Disclosure policy
AWS App Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Fedramp
AWS App Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Gdpr
AWS App Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Hipaa
AWS App Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Iso27001
AWS App Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Pci
AWS App Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Soc2
AWS App Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Reliability
Status page
AWS App Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Market
Availability
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Capabilities

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

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

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Not documented yet.

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 ↗

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Pricing not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
CLI
AWS App Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
AWS App Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Self-hosted
AWS App Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
On-premise
AWS App Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service 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.

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

8 total
  • Istio
  • Envoy
  • Kiali
  • Red Hat Connectivity Link
  • Red Hat OpenShift Observability
  • cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift
  • Red Hat OpenShift Gitops
  • Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Independently observed

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