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AWS App Mesh Virtual Router is a control plane component that directs traffic between different microservices within your application. Think of it as a traffic director for your application's internal network. You define routes and rules within the Virtual Router to specify which microservices receive requests based on criteria like headers or paths, enabling features like routing to different versions of a service or implementing traffic splitting for canary deployments. It simplifies managing the complex routing needs of large, distributed applications, making it easier to scale and update your services.