Cloud providers are quietly adding surcharges for service mesh traffic, turning what was once free internal networking into a line item on your bill. In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down the new 'service mesh traffic tax' hitting AWS App Mesh, Istio on GKE, and Azure Service Mesh. They explain how envoy proxy overhead, sidecar resource consumption, and control plane API calls are being metered and billed separately. Learn why your mesh is costing 15-30% more than expected, and discover strategies like headless services and egress gateway consolidation to cut costs without sacrificing observability. Specific numbers from a real finops report show how one company reduced its mesh tax by over 40 percent by switching from per-pod sidecars to a shared node-level proxy.

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