 Cloud hosted services like hosted databases, typically do not
have a VIP. Instead, the provider&rsquo;s DNS server returns one of the
instance IPs that can then be directly accessed by the
application. For example, consider the two service entries below,
pointing to two different AWS RDS services:</p><pre><code class=language-yaml data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: ServiceEntry
metadata:
  name: db1
  namespace: ns1
spec:
  hosts:
  - mysql-instance1.us-eas