Managed Istio

Enterprise-grade service mesh.

Fully managed Istio service mesh with automated upgrades, security policies, and deep observability. Zero operational overhead for mesh management.

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Fully managed

Mesh

Automatic

mTLS

Built-in

Tracing

Zero-touch

Upgrades

Enterprise service mesh, zero ops.

Managed Istiod, auto upgrades, and multi-cluster federation.

Managed control plane

Istiod managed and scaled for you. Automatic upgrades, patching, and HA across zones.

Security policies

mTLS, authorization policies, and request authentication with JWT validation.

Observability suite

Kiali dashboard, distributed tracing, and Prometheus metrics out of the box.

Traffic management

Virtual services, destination rules, fault injection, and traffic mirroring.

Multi-cluster federation

Span mesh across clusters with automatic service discovery and failover.

WASM extensions

Extend Envoy with WASM plugins for custom auth, logging, and rate limiting.

Getting started

Launch your first instance in three steps. CLI, console, or API — your choice.

Terminal
ur mesh istio enable \
  --cluster=my-cluster \
  --version=1.22

Istio for production.

Enterprise microservices and multi-cluster mesh without the operational burden.

Enterprise microservices

Production mesh with mTLS, RBAC, and compliance-ready audit trails.

View tutorial

Suggested configuration

Istio · mTLS · Auth policies

Estimate your costs

Create detailed configurations to see exactly how much your architecture will cost. Pay for what you use, down to the second.

Configuration 1

Estimated: $33.50/mo

Istio Mesh

Traffic & Bandwidth

GB

Add-ons

Advanced Logging & AnalyticsDetailed flow logs (+$0.01/GB)
Cross-region HAActive-active failover
Config 1 cost$33.50

Cost details

$33.50

Fully managed Istio service mesh on Kubernetes.

Configuration 1
$33.50
Data Processing$8.50
5 Endpoint(s)$25.00

Works seamlessly with

Managed Kubernetes
Cloud Monitoring
Cloud Logging
IAM
Cloud Trace
Prometheus

Frequently asked questions

Istio, without the ops.

Fully managed service mesh with automated upgrades and security policies.