>traffic management features</a> for egress traffic:
load balancing, passive and active health checking, circuit breaker, timeouts, retries, fault injection, and others.</li></ul><p>We refer to a system with the advantages above as <strong>Istio-aware</strong>.</p><p>The following table summarizes the egress traffic control features that Istio and the alternative solutions provide:</p><table><thead><tr><th></th><th>Istio Egress Traffic Control</th><th>Kubernetes Network Policies</th><th>Legacy Egress Proxy 