 ingress and east-west capabilities but it also offers many features for egress (outgoing) traffic. This is especially useful when your application needs to talk to an external service - such as a database endpoint provided by a cloud provider. There are often multiple endpoints to chose from depending on where your workload is running. For example, Amazon&rsquo;s DynamoDB provides <a href=https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/ddb.html>several endpoints</a> across their regions. You typically want t