Istio vs VPC Lattice Architecture Comparison

Istio vs VPC Lattice Architecture Comparison An architecture diagram generated by Archify. istiod · Control Plane · Istio Architecture istiod Control Plane App · + Envoy sidecar · Istio Architecture App + Envoy sidecar App · + Envoy sidecar · Istio Architecture App + Envoy sidecar Service Network · AWS managed service · VPC Lattice Architecture Service Network AWS managed service App · No sidecar · VPC Lattice Architecture App No sidecar App · No sidecar · VPC Lattice Architecture App No sidecar Config Config mTLS HTTP Routing Istio Architecture VPC Lattice Architecture Legend Backend Cloud

Istio

  • • Self-managed; sidecar required (Sidecar or Ambient)
  • • High resource overhead: an Envoy per pod
  • • Automatic mTLS, fine-grained traffic control

VPC Lattice

  • • AWS-managed (fully-managed); no sidecar required
  • • Low resource overhead; basic traffic management
  • • Not Kubernetes-only (EC2, Lambda, etc.)