Enterprise service mesh startup Tetrate Inc. today announced Tetrate Service Express, a new platform targeted at enterprises using service mesh on Amazon EKS that want to use the open-source tools Istio and Envoy Proxy with it.

Tetrate says its new offering has been designed specifically for teams that need to prove the technical and business benefits of service mesh for Amazon EKS without needing to master Istio and Envoy or create technical debt when managing open-source software. Istio is an open-service mesh platform that enables organizations to secure, connect and monitor microservices. Envoy is an open-source edge and service proxy for cloud-native applications.

TSE automates zero-trust security principles enforcement, failover across clusters and regions and service discovery without needing advanced skills and custom code to achieve resilience and security. Tetrate claims that TSE is the only offering based on open-source software and optimized for AWS, pre-integrated with the most popular AWS services to get users up and running in minutes.

Features of TSE include prebuilt service resilience and security, including cross-cluster and cross-region failover, with mTLS, a type of mutual authentication, enabled by default without additional configuration. TSE can be used in production with GitOps, metrics, events, logs and traces.

TSE is designed to scale across the enterprise and can be migrated to Tetrate’s fully featured enterprise offering, Tetrate Service Bridge, for future cross-cloud, multi-tenancy and VM-based workload needs.

“We built Tetrate Service Express specifically to make it easy for teams using Amazon EKS to evaluate Istio-based service mesh,” head of product David Wang said in a statement. “We hear from users every day about challenges with high availability across AWS regions and securing container-based services and controlling access across their developers and external users. We built TSE to show fast value and solve those problems — all with a clear path to enterprise-scale with Tetrate Service Bridge.”

Tetrate is a venture capital-backed company, having last raised $40 million in funding in March 2021. Investors include Sapphire Ventures LLC, Scale Venture Partners LP, NTTVC, Dell Technologies Capital, Intel Capital Corp., 8VC Management LLC and Samsung NEXT Fund LLC.

Varun Talwar, the co-founder of Tetrate, spoke with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media Inc.’s video studio, in March to discuss how dedicated infrastructure layers found in service meshes such as Istio, along with other containers add-ons, are addressing the challenges developers and operators face:

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