><svg class="large-icon"><use xlink:href="/v1.3/img/icons.svg#cancel"/></svg></td><td><svg class="large-icon"><use xlink:href="/v1.3/img/icons.svg#cancel"/></svg></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 id=performance-considerations>Performance considerations</h2><p>Controlling egress traffic using Istio has a price: increased latency of calls to external services and
increased CPU usage by the cluster&rsquo;s pods.
Traffic passes through two proxies:</p><ul><li>The application&rsquo;s sidecar proxy</li><li>The egress