<p>I added istio to my eks cluster. Sidecars are getting added to every pod and my Kiali dashboard is also up.</p>
<p>But after that I am not able to authenticate my APIs. I checked all the logs, came out to be that my pods are not able to connect to Cognito Server. I am getting following error:</p>
<p><code>Unhandled rejection TypeError: Unable to generate certificate due to</code>
<code>RequestError: Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 13.235.142.215:443</code></p>
<p>I went inside my pod to check if it can connect to any public DNS, I was able to ping google.com but not to aws.amazon.com</p>
<p>To crossverify, I removed istio from my cluster and it started working.</p>
<p>Got a github issue somewhat matching my issue, but that has also been closed without any solution (<a href="https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/10848" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/10848</a>).</p>
<p>Can anyone help me with this issue.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>

Bhavesh
<p>Got the issue, my istio is trying to connect to aws cognito through ssl and it doesn't have certificates. Putting certificates in istio solved this.</p>
