# AWS App Mesh

> Application-level networking for all your services

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/aws-app-mesh
- **Category:** Service Mesh
- **Homepage:** https://aws.amazon.com/app-mesh/
- **Also known as:** aws-app-mesh
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-01T21:28:53.052Z

## Vioscale score

**63.8 / 100**, confidence 29% (low).

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 100 | 8 | 800 | ✓ |
| reliability | 50 | 30 | 1500 | ✓ |
| capabilities | 57.8 | 12 | 693.8 | ✓ |
| integrations | 0 | 16 | 0 | - |
| security_posture | 5 | 22 | 0 | - |
| pricing_transparency | 80 | 12 | 960 | ✓ |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-01, [verify at source](https://aws.amazon.com/app-mesh/). Independently observed._

Free · Free tier

> No charge for App Mesh; you pay only for underlying AWS resources (EC2, Fargate, EKS)

## About

AWS App Mesh is a managed service mesh enabling custom traffic routing and streamlined operations for containerized services, with built-in observability and encrypted service-to-service communication.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment
- **Deployment:** Cloud / SaaS

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for Service Mesh. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **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 | - |

## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/app-mesh/) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.model | free | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/app-mesh/) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.price_level | free | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/app-mesh/) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.transparent | yes | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/app-mesh/) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |

### reliability

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reliability.status_page | yes | [link](https://status.aws.amazon.com) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |

### security

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |

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*Source: Vioscale (https://www.vioscale.ai/software/aws-app-mesh). Independent, evidence-based software intelligence. Cite the canonical URI.*