Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

AWS Batch now supports Amazon EKS access entry authentication

for compute environments. EKS access entries provide an API-driven approach to granting IAM principals access to Kubernetes clusters, complementing the existing aws-auth ConfigMap.

Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37

Kubernetes version 1.37 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.37.

Amazon EKS Auto Mode now supports advanced compute configuration

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Auto Mode now lets you tune kubelet settings, Linux kernel sysctls, and hugepages directly in the NodeClass Kubernetes resource.

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway for scalable LLM inference

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway is a Kubernetes-native, GPU-aware routing system that deploys as a single EKS managed add-on on existing SageMaker HyperPod infrastructure with zero application changes.

Run interactive workloads on Amazon EMR on EKS with Spark Connect

Amazon EMR on EKS now supports interactive Apache Spark sessions with Spark Connect. Data engineers and data scientists can develop and debug Apache Spark applications interactively from managed notebooks in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio and their own IDEs, such as Jupyter and…

AWS Private CA EKS add-on and Connector for AD now available in AWS GovCloud (US)

AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) announces the availability of the AWS Private CA Connector for Kubernetes as a managed Amazon EKS add-on and the AWS Private CA Connector for Active Directory in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions.

Amazon EKS now supports multiple external OIDC identity providers per cluster

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports multiple external OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity providers per cluster.

Amazon EKS Capability for Argo CD now supports custom configuration

The Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Capability for Argo CD now supports custom configuration through a standard argocd-cm ConfigMap in your cluster.

Amazon EKS now supports certificate authority (CA) rotation with automated lifecycle management

Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) announced certificate authority (CA) rotation, enabling customers to rotate their cluster's CA through a managed lifecycle with automated safeguards.

Amazon EKS now supports advanced Kubernetes control plane configuration parameters

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports configuring parameters for Kubernetes control plane components including the scheduler, controller manager, and API server.

Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane now delivers faster pod autoscaling

Amazon EKS now delivers faster pod autoscaling across all Provisioned Control Plane clusters by increasing Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) sync concurrency to up to 40 times the default Kubernetes value.

Amazon EKS now supports AWS PrivateLink for the cluster OIDC endpoint

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports AWS PrivateLink for the cluster OIDC discovery and JWKS endpoint. You can now reach the endpoint used by IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA) privately from your VPC without requiring internet egress.

Amazon EKS now supports EFA and placement groups on Amazon EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Amazon EC2 placement groups and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) network device configuration for node pools on EKS Auto Mode and the open-source Karpenter project, enabling you to optimize EKS workloads for performance and…

Amazon EKS Auto Mode now supports Application Recovery Controller zonal shift

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal shift and autoshift for clusters using EKS Auto Mode. ARC helps you manage and coordinate recovery across AWS Regions and Availability Zones (AZs).

Amazon EKS Auto Mode reduces GPU management fees by up to 60%

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Mode now offers significantly reduced management fees for GPU and accelerated instance types.

Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version rollback

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports Kubernetes version rollback, enabling you to revert to the previous Kubernetes minor version within 7 days if any issues arise after an upgrade.

Amazon GuardDuty adds sensitive file modification threat detections

Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring now includes three new threat detections that alert security teams when sensitive files are modified on Amazon EC2 instances and container workloads running on Amazon EKS or Amazon ECS.

AWS Network Firewall now supports container attribute-based inspection for Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS

Today, AWS announces container attribute-based rules for AWS Network Firewall, a capability that simplifies how you secure containerized workloads, including generative AI applications, running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container…

Amazon CloudWatch launches OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS

CloudWatch OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS collects infrastructure metrics at 30-second granularity using open-source receivers including cAdvisor, Kube State Metrics, and NVIDIA DCGM.

Amazon EKS now supports customer-routed control plane egress

Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) introduces customer-routed control plane egress, a capability that lets you route outbound Kubernetes API server traffic through your own Amazon VPC.