# Aeraki Mesh vs AWS App Mesh

**Leader by Vioscale score:** AWS App Mesh

| Attribute | Aeraki Mesh | AWS App Mesh |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 23.2 (36% (low)) | 64.7 (63% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 0 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 11 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | Aeraki Mesh is an open-source project for managing layer-7 protocols in a service mesh, supporting Dubbo, Thrift, Redis, Kafka, ZooKeeper, and custom protocols through the MetaProtocol framework. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"proxy":"envoy","data_plane":"sidecar","cncf_maturity":"sandbox","automatic_mtls":true,"traffic_splitting":true,"commercial_support":false,"built_in_observability":true}` | `{"data_plane":"sidecar","cncf_maturity":"none","automatic_mtls":true,"traffic_splitting":true,"commercial_support":true,"built_in_observability":true}` |
| integrations.count | 6 | - |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Istio"},{"name":"Dubbo"},{"name":"Thrift"},{"name":"Redis"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"ZooKeeper"}]` | - |
| language.primary | JavaScript | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true}` | - |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Open source, free","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://aeraki.net/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T18:18:59.357Z"}` | `{"type":"usage","summary":"Pay-as-you-go usage-based pricing; specific pricing rates not disclosed on provided pages","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T16:50:07.963Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.fedramp | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |

## Capabilities (Service Mesh)

| Capability | Aeraki Mesh | AWS App Mesh |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Data plane | Sidecar | Sidecar |
| Proxy | Envoy | - |
| **Security** |  |  |
| Automatic mutual TLS | ✓ | ✓ |
| SPIFFE / SPIRE identity | - | - |
| **Traffic** |  |  |
| Traffic splitting / canary | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fault injection / resilience | - | - |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Multi-cluster federation | - | - |
| **Portability** |  |  |
| VM support (beyond Kubernetes) | - | - |
| **Observability** |  |  |
| Built-in observability | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| Gateway API / GAMMA support | - | - |
| **Extensibility** |  |  |
| WASM extensibility | - | - |
| **Compliance** |  |  |
| FIPS mode | - | - |
| **Ecosystem** |  |  |
| CNCF maturity | Sandbox | None |
| **Ops** |  |  |
| Commercial support / enterprise edition | ✗ | ✓ |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:32:54.846Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*