 outages or anomalies in one cluster can dynamically cause requests to fail over to other clusters, potentially in other regions or clouds. This gives users the ability to run high-availability services in active-active configuration, optimizing compute utilization and traffic costs from a single control plane. Multi-cluster ambient mesh will be available as an Alpha in Istio 1.27, which we plan to release in August.</p><h3 id=the-future-of-extensibility>The future of extensibility</h3><p>The Istio project 