or each connection (one for each sidecar), ambient mesh collapses these two steps into one. In most cases, we expect this reduced processing cost to compensate for an additional network hop.</li><li>Users often deploy a mesh to enable a zero-trust security posture as a first-step and then selectively enable L7 capabilities as needed. Ambient mesh allows those users to bypass the cost of L7 processing entirely when it’s not needed.</li></ul><h2 id=resource-overhead>Resource overhead</h2><p>Overall we expec