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title: Migrate from AWS Appmesh to Enterprise-Ready Istio
description: Elevate your Kubernetes infrastructure to enterprise standards with Tetrate Istio Subscription.
image: https://resources.tetrate.dev/hubfs/Appmesh%20Istio.jpg
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## Migrate from AWS Appmesh to Enterprise-Ready Istio

If you're looking to migrate from AWS Appmesh to the most widely-deployed service mesh, Tetrate's got you covered with Tetrate Istio Subscription.

A service mesh is an infrastructure layer that manages service communication in a transparent and language-independent way. It helps to configure how service instances perform critical actions such as service discovery, load balancing, data encryption, and authentication and authorization.

There are several well known projects/products today, e.g. [istio](https://istio.io/), [AWS Appmesh](https://aws.amazon.com/app-mesh/), [Kuma](https://kuma.io/), [linkerd](https://linkerd.io/) etc. Each project has its own advantages and disadvantages. It's often hard to change/migrate from one to another.

TIM (Tetrate Istio Migration toolkit) is a tool used to help you to migrate from another service mesh to Istio, based on the TID add-on for Amazon EKS.

### AWS Appmesh vs. Istio

Istio is the most popular open-source service mesh created by Google, IBM, and Lyft with native integration to Kubernetes, and Envoy as Service Proxy. Istio Control plane handles automatic load balancing, routing, policy management, observability (metrics, logs & traces), authentication and communication, and many more.

AWS Appmesh is a managed service providing application-level networking and service communication support for Microservices architecture. It also uses Envoy proxy making it compatible with multiple solution approaches. It supports h AWS Fargate, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and Kubernetes running on AWS.

Contact us for a private beta of the Tetrate Istio Migration toolkit for AWS Appmesh.

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