olation</a> is enabled,
a single Istiod instance can support 1000 services, 2000 sidecars with 1 vCPU and 1.5 GB of memory.
You can increase the number of Istiod instances to reduce the amount of time it takes for the configuration
to reach all proxies.</p><h2 id=data-plane-performance>Data plane performance</h2><p>Data plane performance depends on many factors, for example:</p><ul><li>Number of client connections</li><li>Target request rate</li><li>Request size and Response size</li><li>Number of proxy wor