Therefore, an additional hop with one or two proxies in the egress gateway should not have a large impact.</p><p>Moreover, we continue to work towards reducing Istio&rsquo;s performance overhead.
Possible optimizations include:</p><ul><li>Extending Envoy to handle wildcard domains: This would eliminate the need for a third proxy between
the application and the external services for that use case.</li><li>Using mutual TLS for authentication only without encrypting the TLS traffic, since the traffic is alread