Please note that this workshop has been archived and is not actively maintained. On September 30, 2026, AWS will discontinue support for AWS App Mesh. For more information, visit this blog post.

Mesh the Backend Crystal Service

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At this point, you should have the application up and running in your lab environment with the EC2 instances serving the frontend with ECS and EKS services managing the backend tasks.

In this chapter, our goal is to create the Mesh and edit your ECS backend deployment in order to have the Envoy containers running and intercepting the network traffic from your ECS tasks.

To accomplish this, let’s run the following steps: