Explore the benefits and challenges of microservices architecture in cloud environments, focusing on achieving resilience and high availability while managing costs and performance issues.

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Distributed systems across multiple availability zones can incur high data transfer costs and performance issues. Zone Aware Routing helps optimize latency and costs by directing traffic within the same availability zone. Implementing this requires tools like Istio and support from distributed databases. It's crucial to handle uneven service distribution to avoid hotspots and ensure system reliability.

How to Minimize Latency and Cost in Distributed Systems

<p>🤔 I’ve seen firsthand how crucial it is to monitor and adjust zone-aware routing in Istio, especially when dealing with services that have uneven distribution across zones - it’s not just about enabling it, but also continuously tuning it to avoid hotspots and ensure reliability. 👍</p>
