TID is enterprise-level supported Istio Distro that: - enforces fetching certified versions of Istio and enables only compatible versions of Istio installation - includes a FIPS-compliant flavor - delivers platform-based Istio configuration validations by integrating validation libraries from multiple sources - uses a number of cloud provider certificate management systems to create Istio CA certs that are used for signing service mesh managed workloads - provides multiple additional integration points with cloud providers The platform team can deploy the offer on any AKS Clusters within supported Kubernetes versions 1.19 - 1.25.