on the pod&rsquo;s local
network, that traffic shouldn&rsquo;t have a significant impact on latency.</p><p>See a <a href=/v1.3/blog/2019/egress-performance/>performance evaluation</a> of different Istio configurations set to control egress
traffic. I would encourage you to carefully measure different configurations with your own applications and your own
external services, before you decide whether you can afford the performance overhead for your use cases. You should weigh the
required level of security ve