---
title: "DoorDash Uses Service Mesh and Cell-Based Architecture to Significantly Reduce Data Transfer Costs"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/doordash-uses-service-mesh-and-cell-based-architecture-to-significantly-reduce-data-transfer-costs-as50uvhwz
source_url: https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/01/doordash-service-mesh/
type: article
source: "InfoQ"
published: 2024-01-23T11:44:27.241Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:58:27.770Z
tags: ["cloud", "aws", "infrastructure", "devops", "kubernetes", "architecture", "microservices", "service-mesh", "finops", "envoy"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# DoorDash Uses Service Mesh and Cell-Based Architecture to Significantly Reduce Data Transfer Costs

**[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 3 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

DoorDash significantly reduced data transfer costs by implementing zone-aware routing with its Envoy-based service mesh in its Cell-Based Architecture.

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Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/infrastructure), [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#microservices](https://daily.dev/tags/microservices), [#service-mesh](https://daily.dev/tags/service-mesh), [#finops](https://daily.dev/tags/finops), [#envoy](https://daily.dev/tags/envoy)

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