# AWS App Mesh vs Flomesh Service Mesh

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

| Attribute | AWS App Mesh | Flomesh Service Mesh |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 64.7 (63% (medium)) | 33.6 (32% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 800 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | Flomesh Service Mesh (FSM) is a cloud-native service mesh solution that manages traffic between services while automatically encrypting their communication channels. It provides fine-grained access control policies to regulate which services can communicate with each other. |
| features.capabilities | `{"data_plane":"sidecar","cncf_maturity":"none","automatic_mtls":true,"traffic_splitting":true,"commercial_support":true,"built_in_observability":true}` | `{"automatic_mtls":true}` |
| language.primary | - | JavaScript |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| pricing | `{"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 | - |
| pricing.model | freemium | - |
| pricing.price_level | low | - |
| pricing.transparent | no | - |
| release.cadence_days | - | 19 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v2.0.0","date":"2026-02-13T06:07:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v1.0.4","date":"2026-01-30T15:15:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v1.0.4-rc4","date":"2025-09-15T05:14:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.4-rc4"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc3","date":"2025-09-04T12:29:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.0-rc3"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v1.0.3-mcp-remote","date":"2025-08-22T01:30:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.3-mcp-remote"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v1.0.2-mcp-remote","date":"2025-08-06T13:25:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.2-mcp-remote"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v1.0.1-mcp-remote","date":"2025-07-17T11:07:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.1-mcp-remote"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v1.0.0-mcp-remote","date":"2025-06-28T14:42:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.0-mcp-remote"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc2","date":"2025-03-28T08:37:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.0-rc2"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc1","date":"2024-11-29T15:39:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.0-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v0.9.0","date":"2024-11-15T10:13:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.9.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v0.3.1","date":"2024-10-21T06:46:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.3.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v0.3.0","date":"2024-09-26T12:39:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v0.2.0","date":"2024-08-09T09:55:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v0.1.0","date":"2024-07-26T07:40:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v0.0.4","date":"2024-06-20T06:55:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.0.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v0.0.3","date":"2024-05-24T16:56:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.0.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v0.0.2","date":"2024-05-11T10:35:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.0.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/flomesh-io/ztm/releases/tag/v0.0.1","date":"2024-05-08T14:05:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.0.1"}]` |
| 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 | AWS App Mesh | Flomesh Service Mesh |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Data plane | Sidecar | - |
| Proxy | - | - |
| **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 | None | - |
| **Ops** |  |  |
| Commercial support / enterprise edition | ✓ | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:23:06.734Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*