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Cloud Contracts Now Meter Your Service Mesh Sidecar CPU
Episode 129 drills into the newest cloud billing frontier: service mesh sidecar proxy CPU usage. AWS App Mesh, Istio, and Linkerd sidecars now appear as distinct cost line items in enterprise cloud bills. We walk through a specific example: a 500-node EKS cluster running Istio, where sidecar overhead added $12,000 per month in hidden vCPU charges. Lucas and Luna discuss the technical reasons sidecar CPU is expensive (mutual TLS, telemetry, mTLS handshake overhead), why cloud vendors started metering it, and three practical mitigations: sidecar resource limits, selective injection, and…
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