Application Networking Service- AWS App Mesh

Kubernetes Advocate
AVM Consulting Blog
4 min readMay 7, 2023

AWS App Mesh provides application-level networking so your services can communicate across multiple types of computing infrastructure.

AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides an application-level networking to make it easy for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of computing 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 computing infrastructure such as Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate.

As the number of services grows 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.

WHAT IS APP MESH?

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.

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 tracking. 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.

Hybrid Deployments

You can use AWS App Mesh on AWS Outposts to configure a service mesh for applications deployed on-premises. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services,

APIs, and tools to virtually any connected site. With AWS App Mesh on Outposts, you can provide consistent communication control logic for services across AWS Outposts and AWS cloud to simplify hybrid application networking.

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.

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Vineet Sharma-Founder and CEO of Kubernetes Advocate Tech author, cloud-native architect, and startup advisor.https://in.linkedin.com/in/vineet-sharma-0164

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