Cloud Service Mesh

GCPNetworking

Managed Istio-based service mesh that provides east-west traffic management, mTLS, fine-grained authorisation, and unified observability across GKE, GKE on AWS, Cloud Run, and VMs, delivered as a GCP-managed control plane (formerly Anthos Service Mesh)

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Attributes

Managed Control Plane
Yes

Sub-services (4)

Managed Istio

GCP-operated Istio control plane with automatic upgrades

Automatic mTLS

Mesh-wide mutual TLS with no app-side code changes

Fine-Grained Authorization

Identity-based service-to-service authz policies using Istio CRDs

Unified Observability

Golden signals, service dependency graph, and per-request telemetry in Monitoring

Compliance & Certifications

This service is attested for the following frameworks. Always verify with the provider before relying on a specific compliance posture.

GDPRSOC 2ISO 27001HIPAAPCI DSSFedRAMP

Where this runs

44 regions
28 countries
2sovereign
Sovereign regions (2)
  • T-Systems Sovereign Cloud · FrankfurtT-Systems Sovereign Cloud powered by Google Cloud
  • S3NS Sovereign Cloud · ParisS3NS — Google Cloud + Thales joint venture
Commercial regions (42)

Europe (13)

  • Belgium
  • Finland
  • Paris
  • Berlin
  • Frankfurt
  • Milan
  • Turin
  • Netherlands
  • Warsaw
  • Madrid
  • Stockholm
  • Zurich
  • London

North America (12)

  • Montréal
  • Toronto
  • Querétaro
  • Northern Virginia
  • Columbus
  • Iowa
  • Dallas
  • Las Vegas
  • Los Angeles
  • South Carolina
  • Salt Lake City
  • Oregon

South America (2)

  • São Paulo
  • Santiago

Asia (9)

  • Hong Kong
  • Delhi
  • Mumbai
  • Jakarta
  • Osaka
  • Tokyo
  • Singapore
  • Seoul
  • Taiwan

Oceania (2)

  • Melbourne
  • Sydney

Middle East (3)

  • Tel Aviv
  • Doha
  • Dammam

Africa (1)

  • Johannesburg

Tags

service-meshistiomtlstraffic-managementobservabilitynetworking

Equivalent services on other platforms

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Pricing

Pricing model:subscription