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Feature Request: Increase the maximum number of Virtual Gateways per Mesh

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**Tell us about your request**
Allow more than 5 Virtual Gateways per Mesh.

**Which integration(s) is this request for?**
N/A

**Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?**
We're building an API that will be exposed for multiple brands. Each brand will get it's own domain, and we are utilizing CloudFront and API Gateway to inject a `x-brand-id` header, so that our backends would know which brand they currently serve.

To get proper visibility of what's going on, we want to build following "ingress stack" for every brand:
```
CloudFront => API GW => VPC Link => NLB => Virtual Gateway
```

This allows us to utilize CloudWatch Metrics that Virtual Gateway generates to have "per-brand" metrics / dashboard / alerting in place based on the VirtualGateway => TargetVirtualNode metrics that it generates.

We're currently in a process of running two new brands, and migrating one of the old ones to new infrastructure setup. To process the migration we needed to increase the "Virtual Gateways per Mesh" limit from (initial) 3. We requested increasing that limit to 10 Virtual Gateways, which should future-proof the system in case any new brand appears later next year (which is planned).

AWS Support response was that - at the time - **the maximum Virtual Gateways per Mesh they can do is 5**.

**Are you currently working around this issue?**
We're not, but I'd be happy to hear ideas...

**Additional context**
1. I don't understand this limit at all. AppMesh is merely a metadata store. It's the Envoy that does all the heavy lifting, and AppMesh merely provides it with some JSON to configure itself. How, in a world of autoscaling clouds and systems running on thousands of CPUs would anyone thing a fixed-size, 5-position table is a good idea...?
2. The support tickets we've raised: `11421690101` / `11421583251` / `11421612421` / `11421625461`
3. In `11421625461` we're currently having the conversation about the cap at 5 VGs.

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Research direction

No repository files, tests, or implementation entry points are named. Start by reviewing the AWS App Mesh quota and Virtual Gateway documentation, then use the linked support-ticket context to determine whether the requested per-Mesh limit can be changed. Done means AWS supports more than five Virtual Gateways per Mesh and the new limit is documented.

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Assessment

Tech stack
aws
Domain
cloud, infrastructure
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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