AWS App Mesh

AWS managed service mesh control plane for Envoy sidecars.

Provider: aws
Kind: Service mesh
Category: Operations
Official docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/app-mesh/latest/userguide/what-is-app-mesh.html

Properties · 4 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
circuitBreaking	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
controlPlanes	integer	—	no	—	inherited
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
mtls	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
retries	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
sidecar	boolean	—	no	true	▸ true

Rules that apply · 0

Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.

No rule reads this kind yet. That is a gap, not a guarantee.

Use it in a design

nodes:
  - { id: "app-mesh", component: "aws-app-mesh" }

Other Service mesh products · 11

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# AWS App Mesh: managed control plane with Envoy sidecars; mTLS and retries opt-in. Reaching end of support in 2026.
3schemaVersion: "1"
4type: "component"
5id: "aws-app-mesh"
6kind: "service-mesh"
7provider: "aws"
8docs: "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/app-mesh/latest/userguide/what-is-app-mesh.html"
9defaults:
10  managed: true
11  sidecar: true
12  mtls: false
13  retries: false

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/aws-app-mesh.md