/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/egress-control/#direct-access-to-external-services>the external services must be called directly</a>,
bypassing the sidecar proxies.</p><h2 id=relation-to-mesh-expansion>Relation to mesh expansion</h2><p>Note that the scenario described in this post is different from the mesh expansion scenario, described in the
<a href=/v1.3/docs/examples/mesh-expansion/bookinfo-expanded/>Bookinfo with Mesh Expansion</a> example. In that scenario, a MySQL instance runs on an
external
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