bottom:56.081525312294545%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.26/blog/2024/ambient-vs-cilium/scale-scorecard.png title><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.26/blog/2024/ambient-vs-cilium/scale-scorecard.png alt="Scalability Scorecard: Istio vs. Cilium!"></a></div><figcaption></figcaption></figure>Istio was able to deliver 56% more queries at 20% lower tail latency. The CPU usage was 30% less for Cilium, though our measurement does not include the cores Cilium used to process encryption, which is done in th