Istio’s powerful APIs can be used to solve a variety of service mesh use cases. Many users know about its strong ingress and east-west capabilities but it also offers many features for egress (outgoing) traffic. This is especially useful when your application needs to talk to an external service - such as a database endpoint provided by a cloud provider. There are often multiple endpoints to chose from depending on where your workload is running. For example, Amazon’s DynamoDB provides se...
