# AWS App Mesh vs Gloo Mesh

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

| Attribute | AWS App Mesh | Gloo Mesh |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 64.7 (63% (medium)) | 33.8 (33% (low)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":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. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"data_plane":"sidecar","cncf_maturity":"none","automatic_mtls":true,"traffic_splitting":true,"commercial_support":true,"built_in_observability":true}` | `{"proxy":"envoy","fips_mode":true,"data_plane":"ambient","multicluster":true,"automatic_mtls":true,"commercial_support":true,"built_in_observability":true}` |
| integrations.count | - | 4 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"Istio"},{"name":"Envoy"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","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"}` | `{"type":"quote","summary":"Custom pricing based on deployment size and environment","sourceUrl":"https://www.solo.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T21:37:44.694Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | freemium | quote |
| pricing.price_level | low | unknown |
| pricing.transparent | no | 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 | yes |

## Capabilities (Service Mesh)

| Capability | AWS App Mesh | Gloo Mesh |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Data plane | Sidecar | Ambient |
| 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 | None | - |
| **Ops** |  |  |
| Commercial support / enterprise edition | ✓ | ✓ |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:19:55.428Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*