AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute infrastructure. App Mesh standardizes how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and ensuring high-availability for your applications.
Modern applications are typically composed of multiple services. Each service may be built using multiple types of compute infrastructure such as Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate. As the number of services grow within an application, it becomes difficult to pinpoint the exact location of errors, re-route traffic after failures, and safely deploy code changes. Previously, this has required you to build monitoring and control logic directly into your code and redeploy your service every time there are changes.
AWS App Mesh makes it easy to run services by providing consistent visibility and network traffic controls for services built across multiple types of compute infrastructure. App Mesh removes the need to update application code to change how monitoring data is collected or traffic is routed between services. App Mesh configures each service to export monitoring data and implements consistent communications control logic across your application. This makes it easy to quickly pinpoint the exact location of errors and automatically re-route network traffic when there are failures or when code changes need to be deployed.
You can use App Mesh with AWS Fargate, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and Kubernetes running on AWS, to better run your application at scale. App Mesh uses the open source Envoy proxy, making it compatible with a wide range of AWS partner and open source tools.
Benefits
End-to-end visibility
App Mesh captures metrics, logs, and traces from all of your applications. You can combine and export this data to Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and compatible AWS partner and community tools for monitoring and tracing. This lets you quickly identify and isolate issues with any service to optimize your entire application.
Ensure high availability
App Mesh gives you controls to configure how traffic flows between your services. You can easily implement custom traffic routing rules to ensure every service is highly available during deployments, after failures, and as your application scales.
Streamline operations
App Mesh deploys and configures a proxy that manages all communications traffic to and from your services. This removes the need to configure communication protocols for each service, write custom code, or implement libraries to operate your application.
Enhance any application
You can use App Mesh with services running on any compute service such as AWS Fargate, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and Amazon EC2. App Mesh can monitor and control communications for monoliths running on EC2, teams running containerized applications, orchestration systems, or VPCs as a single application without any code changes.
How it works
Before App Mesh
Communications and monitoring are manually configured for every service.
After App Mesh
App Mesh configures communications and monitoring for all services.
Blog posts & articles
AWS App Mesh – Application-Level Networking for Cloud Applications
AWS App Mesh helps you to run and monitor HTTP and TCP services at scale. App Mesh uses the open source Envoy proxy, giving you access to a wide range of tools from AWS partners and the open source community.
Introducing AWS App Mesh
App Mesh helps you better control how traffic flows between microservices and helps you identify issues anywhere in an application.
Redefining application communications with AWS App Mesh
AWS App Mesh redefines application communication, allowing an app-first approach. In this blog, written by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, he discusses how App Mesh gives you a simple, declarative approach to model service communication.
AWS App Mesh partners
