Service Mesh Networking: Sidecars Disappear While AI Inference Gateways Emerge

This IDC Market Note analyzes the state of the worldwide service mesh market across cloud providers and the open source projects and related vendors in the CNCF ecosystem. "Many service mesh functions are being absorbed into infrastructure as default built-in features. The value is moving up to the AI inference gateways," says Taranvir Singh, Research Manager, Worldwide Cloud Networking Services, IDC.

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IDC's Point of View

• What is the current state of the market?
• What are the major consumption models?
• What is reshaping the market?
• What does it mean for cloud providers?

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