The following table describes the major updates and new features for the Amazon EKS User Guide. We also update the documentation frequently to address the feedback that you send us.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon EKS support for shared subnets | New Shared subnet requirements and considerations for making Amazon EKS clusters in shared subnets. | September 7, 2023 |
| Updates to What is Amazon EKS? | Added new Common use cases and Architecture topics. Refreshed other topics. | September 6, 2023 |
| Kubernetes network policy enforcement in the Amazon VPC CNI plugin for Kubernetes | You can use Kubernetes network policy with the Amazon VPC CNI plugin for Kubernetes, instead of requiring a third party solution. | August 29, 2023 |
| Amazon EKS AWS Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) (il-central-1) AWS Region. |
August 1, 2023 |
| Configurable ephemeral storage for Fargate | You can increase the total amount of ephemeral storage for each Pod running on Amazon EKS Fargate. | July 31, 2023 |
| Add-on support for Amazon EFS CSI driver | You can now use the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and API to manage the Amazon EFS CSI driver. | July 26, 2023 |
| AWS managed policy updates - New policy | Amazon EKS added a new AWS managed policy. | July 26, 2023 |
| Kubernetes version updates for 1.27, 1.26, 1.25, and 1.24 are now available for local clusters on AWS Outposts | Kubernetes version updates to 1.27.3, 1.26.6, 1.25.11, and 1.24.15 are now available for local clusters on AWS Outposts | July 20, 2023 |
| IP prefixes support for Windows nodes | Assigning IP prefixes to your nodes can enable you to host a significantly higher number of Pods on your nodes than you can when assigning individual secondary IP addresses to your nodes. | July 6, 2023 |
| Amazon FSx for OpenZFS CSI driver | You can now install the Amazon FSx for OpenZFS CSI driver on Amazon EKS clusters. | June 30, 2023 |
Pods on Linux nodes in IPv4 clusters can now communicate with IPv6 endpoints. |
After assigning an IPv6 address to your node, your Pods' IPv4 address is network address translated to the IPv6 address of the node that it's running on. |
June 19, 2023 |
| Windows managed node groups in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) | In the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) AWS Regions, Amazon EKS managed node groups can now run Windows containers. | May 30, 2023 |
Kubernetes version 1.27 |
Added Kubernetes version 1.27 support for new clusters and version upgrades. |
May 24, 2023 |
Kubernetes version 1.26 |
Added Kubernetes version 1.26 support for new clusters and version upgrades. |
April 11, 2023 |
| Domainless gMSA | You can now use domainless gMSA with Windows Pods. | March 27, 2023 |
| Amazon EKS AWS Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) (ap-southeast-4) AWS Region. |
March 10, 2023 |
| Amazon File Cache CSI driver | You can now install the Amazon File Cache CSI driver on Amazon EKS clusters. | March 3, 2023 |
| Kubernetes version 1.25 is now available for local clusters on AWS Outposts | You can now create an Amazon EKS local cluster on an Outpost using Kubernetes versions 1.22 – 1.25. |
March 1, 2023 |
Kubernetes version 1.25 |
Added Kubernetes version 1.25 support for new clusters and version upgrades. |
February 22, 2023 |
| AWS managed policy updates - Update to an existing policy | Amazon EKS updated an existing AWS managed policy. | February 7, 2023 |
| Amazon EKS AWS Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2), Europe (Zurich) (eu-central-2), and Europe (Spain) (eu-south-2) AWS Regions. |
February 6, 2023 |
Kubernetes versions 1.21 – 1.24 are now available for local clusters on AWS Outposts. |
You can now create an Amazon EKS local cluster on an Outpost using Kubernetes versions 1.21 – 1.24. Previously, only version 1.21 was available. |
January 17, 2023 |
| Amazon EKS now supports AWS PrivateLink | You can use an AWS PrivateLink to create a private connection between your VPC and Amazon EKS. | December 16, 2022 |
| Managed node group Windows support | You can now use Windows for Amazon EKS managed node groups. | December 15, 2022 |
| Amazon EKS add-ons from independent software vendors are now available in the AWS Marketplace | You can now browse and subscribe to Amazon EKS add-ons from independent software vendors through the AWS Marketplace. | November 28, 2022 |
| AWS managed policy updates - Update to an existing policy | Amazon EKS updated an existing AWS managed policy. | November 17, 2022 |
Kubernetes version 1.24 |
Added Kubernetes version 1.24 support for new clusters and version upgrades. |
November 15, 2022 |
| Amazon EKS AWS Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Middle East (UAE) (me-central-1) AWS Region. |
November 3, 2022 |
| AWS managed policy updates - Update to an existing policy | Amazon EKS updated an existing AWS managed policy. | October 24, 2022 |
| AWS managed policy updates - Update to an existing policy | Amazon EKS updated an existing AWS managed policy. | October 20, 2022 |
| Local clusters on AWS Outposts are now available | You can now create an Amazon EKS local cluster on an Outpost. | September 19, 2022 |
| Fargate vCPU based quotas | Fargate is transitioning from Pod based quotas to vCPU based quotas. | September 8, 2022 |
| AWS managed policy updates - Update to an existing policy | Amazon EKS updated an existing AWS managed policy. | August 31, 2022 |
| Cost monitoring | Amazon EKS now supports Kubecost, which enables you to monitor costs broken down by Kubernetes resources including Pods, nodes, namespaces, and labels. | August 24, 2022 |
| AWS managed policy updates - New policy | Amazon EKS added a new AWS managed policy. | August 24, 2022 |
| AWS managed policy updates - New policy | Amazon EKS added a new AWS managed policy. | August 23, 2022 |
| Tag resources for billing | Added aws:eks:cluster-name generated cost allocation tag support for all clusters. |
August 16, 2022 |
| Fargate profile wildcards | Added support for Fargate profile wildcards in the selector criteria for namespaces, label keys, and label values. | August 16, 2022 |
Kubernetes version 1.23 |
Added Kubernetes version 1.23 support for new clusters and version upgrades. |
August 11, 2022 |
| View Kubernetes resources in the AWS Management Console | You can now view information about the Kubernetes resources deployed to your cluster using the AWS Management Console. | May 3, 2022 |
| Amazon EKS AWS Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) (ap-southeast-3) AWS Region. |
May 2, 2022 |
| Observation page and ADOT add-on support | Added Observability page and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT). | April 21, 2022 |
Kubernetes version 1.22 |
Added Kubernetes version 1.22 support for new clusters and version upgrades. |
April 4, 2022 |
| AWS managed policy updates - New policy | Amazon EKS added a new AWS managed policy. | April 4, 2022 |
| Added Fargate Pod patching details | When upgrading Fargate Pods, Amazon EKS first tries to evict Pods based on your Pod disruption budgets. You can create event rules to react to failed evictions before the Pods are deleted. | April 1, 2022 |
| Full release: Add-on support for Amazon EBS CSI driver | You can now use the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and API to manage the Amazon EBS CSI driver. | March 31, 2022 |
| AWS Outposts content update | Instructions to deploy an Amazon EKS cluster on AWS Outposts. | March 22, 2022 |
| AWS managed policy updates - Update to an existing policy | Amazon EKS updated an existing AWS managed policy. | March 21, 2022 |
Windows containerd support |
You can now select the containerd runtime for Windows nodes. |
March 14, 2022 |
| Added Amazon EKS Connector considerations to security documentation | Describes the shared responsibility model as it relates to connected clusters. | February 25, 2022 |
Assign IPv6 addresses to your Pods and services |
You can now create a 1.21 or later cluster that assigns IPv6 addresses to your Pods and services. |
January 6, 2022 |
| AWS managed policy updates - Update to an existing policy | Amazon EKS updated an existing AWS managed policy. | December 13, 2021 |
| Preview release: Add-on support for Amazon EBS CSI driver | You can now preview using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and API to manage the Amazon EBS CSI driver. | December 9, 2021 |
| Karpenter autoscaler support | You can now use the Karpenter open-source project to autoscale your nodes. | November 29, 2021 |
| Fluent Bit Kubernetes filter support in Fargate logging | You can now use the Fluent Bit Kubernetes filter with Fargate logging. | November 10, 2021 |
| Windows support available in the control plane | Windows support is now available in your control plane. You no longer need to enable it in your data plane. | November 9, 2021 |
| Bottlerocket added as an AMI type for managed node groups | Previously, Bottlerocket was only available as a self-managed node option. Now it can be configured as a managed node group, reducing the effort that's required to meet node compliance requirements. | October 28, 2021 |
| DL1 driver support | Custom Amazon Linux AMIs now support deep learning workloads for Amazon Linux 2. This enablement allows a generic on-premises or cloud baseline configuration. | October 25, 2021 |
| VT1 video support | Custom Amazon Linux AMIs now support VT1 for some distributions. This enablement advertises Xilinx U30 devices on your Amazon EKS cluster. | September 13, 2021 |
| Amazon EKS Connector is now available | You can use Amazon EKS Connector to register and connect any conformant Kubernetes cluster to AWS and visualize it in the Amazon EKS console. | September 8, 2021 |
| Amazon EKS Anywhere is now available | Amazon EKS Anywhere is a new deployment option for Amazon EKS that you can use to create and operate Kubernetes clusters on-premises. | September 8, 2021 |
| Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP CSI driver | Added topic that summarizes the Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP CSI driver and gives links to other references. | September 2, 2021 |
| Managed node groups now auto-calculates the Amazon EKS recommended maximum Pods for nodes | Managed node groups now auto-calculate the Amazon EKS maximum Pods for nodes that you deploy without a launch template, or with a launch template that you haven't specified an AMI ID in. | August 30, 2021 |
| Remove Amazon EKS management of add-on settings without removing the Amazon EKS add-on software | You can now remove an Amazon EKS add-on without removing the add-on software from your cluster. | August 20, 2021 |
| Create multi-homed Pods using Multus | You can now add multiple network interfaces to a Pod using Multus. | August 2, 2021 |
| Add more IP addresses to your Linux Amazon EC2 nodes | You can now add significantly more IP addresses to your Linux Amazon EC2 nodes. This means that you can run a higher density of Pods on each node. | July 27, 2021 |
containerd runtime bootstrap |
The Amazon EKS optimized accelerated Amazon Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI) now contains a bootstrap flag that you can use to enable the containerd runtime in Amazon EKS optimized and Bottlerocket AMIs. This flag is available in all supported Kubernetes versions of the AMI. |
July 19, 2021 |
Kubernetes version 1.21 |
Added Kubernetes version 1.21 support. |
July 19, 2021 |
| Added managed policies topic | A list of all Amazon EKS IAM managed policies and changes that were made to them since June 17, 2021. | June 17, 2021 |
| Use security groups for Pods with Fargate | You can now use security groups for Pods with Fargate, in addition to using them with Amazon EC2 nodes. | June 1, 2021 |
Added CoreDNS and kube-proxy Amazon EKS add-ons |
Amazon EKS can now help you manage the CoreDNS and kube-proxy Amazon EKS add-ons for your cluster. |
May 19, 2021 |
Kubernetes version 1.20 |
Added Kubernetes version 1.20 support for new clusters and version upgrades. |
May 18, 2021 |
AWS Load Balancer Controller2.2.0 released |
You can now use the AWS Load Balancer Controller to create Elastic Load Balancers using instance or IP targets. | May 14, 2021 |
| Node taints for managed node groups | Amazon EKS now supports adding note taints to managed node groups. | May 11, 2021 |
| Secrets encryption for existing clusters | Amazon EKS now supports adding secrets encryption to existing clusters. | February 26, 2021 |
Kubernetes version 1.19 |
Added Kubernetes version 1.19 support for new clusters and version upgrades. |
February 16, 2021 |
Amazon EKS now supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity providers as a method to authenticate users to a version 1.16 or later cluster. |
OIDC identity providers can be used with, or as an alternative to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). | February 12, 2021 |
| View node and workload resources in the AWS Management Console | You can now view details about your managed, self-managed, and Fargate nodes and your deployed Kubernetes workloads in the AWS Management Console. | December 1, 2020 |
| Deploy Spot Instance types in a managed node group | You can now deploy multiple Spot or On-Demand Instance types to a managed node group. | December 1, 2020 |
| Amazon EKS can now manage specific add-ons for your cluster | You can manage add-ons yourself, or allow Amazon EKS to control the launch and version of an add-on through the Amazon EKS API. | December 1, 2020 |
| Share an ALB across multiple Ingresses | You can now share an AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) across multiple Kubernetes Ingresses. In the past, you had to deploy a separate ALB for each Ingress. | October 23, 2020 |
| NLB IP target support | You can now deploy a Network Load Balancer with IP targets. This means that you can use an NLB to load balance network traffic to Fargate Pods and directly to Pods that are running on Amazon EC2 nodes. | October 23, 2020 |
Kubernetes version 1.18 |
Added Kubernetes version 1.18 support for new clusters and version upgrades. |
October 13, 2020 |
| Specify a custom CIDR block for Kubernetes service IP address assignment. | You can now specify a custom CIDR block that Kubernetes assigns service IP addresses from. | September 29, 2020 |
| Assign security groups to individual Pods | You can now associate different security groups to some of the individual Pods that are running on many Amazon EC2 instance types. | September 9, 2020 |
| Deploy Bottlerocket on your nodes | You can now deploy nodes that are running Bottlerocket. | August 31, 2020 |
| The ability to launch Arm nodes is generally available | You can now launch Arm nodes in managed and self-managed node groups. | August 17, 2020 |
| Managed node group launch templates and custom AMI | You can now deploy a managed node group that uses an Amazon EC2 launch template. The launch template can specify a custom AMI, if you choose. | August 17, 2020 |
| EFS support for AWS Fargate | You can now use Amazon EFS with AWS Fargate. | August 17, 2020 |
| Amazon EKS platform version update | This is a new platform version with security fixes and enhancements. This includes UDP support for services of type LoadBalancer when using Network Load Balancers with Kubernetes version 1.15 or later. For more information, see the Allow UDP for AWS Network Load Balancer issue on GitHub. |
August 12, 2020 |
| Amazon EKS AWS Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) (af-south-1) and Europe (Milan) (eu-south-1) AWS Regions. |
August 6, 2020 |
| Fargate usage metrics | AWS Fargate provides CloudWatch usage metrics that provide visibility into your account's usage of Fargate On-Demand resources. | August 3, 2020 |
Kubernetes version 1.17 |
Added Kubernetes version 1.17 support for new clusters and version upgrades. |
July 10, 2020 |
| Create and manage App Mesh resources from within Kubernetes with the App Mesh controller for Kubernetes | You can create and manage App Mesh resources from within Kubernetes. The controller also automatically injects the Envoy proxy and init containers into Pods that you deploy. | June 18, 2020 |
| Amazon EKS now supports Amazon EC2 Inf1 nodes | You can add Amazon EC2 Inf1 nodes to your cluster. | June 4, 2020 |
| Amazon EKS AWS Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) (us-gov-east-1) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1) AWS Regions. |
May 13, 2020 |
Kubernetes1.12 is no longer supported on Amazon EKS |
Kubernetes version 1.12 is no longer supported on Amazon EKS. Update any 1.12 clusters to version 1.13 or later to avoid service interruption. |
May 12, 2020 |
Kubernetes version 1.16 |
Added Kubernetes version 1.16 support for new clusters and version upgrades. |
April 30, 2020 |
| Added the AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEKS service-linked role | Added the AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEKS service-linked role. | April 16, 2020 |
Kubernetes version 1.15 |
Added Kubernetes version 1.15 support for new clusters and version upgrades. |
March 10, 2020 |
| Amazon EKS AWS Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Beijing (cn-north-1) and Ningxia (cn-northwest-1) AWS Regions. |
February 26, 2020 |
| FSx for Lustre CSI driver | Added topic for installing the FSx for Lustre CSI driver on Kubernetes 1.14 Amazon EKS clusters. |
December 23, 2019 |
| Restrict network access to the public access endpoint of a cluster | With this update, you can use Amazon EKS to restrict the CIDR ranges that can communicate to the public access endpoint of the Kubernetes API server. | December 20, 2019 |
| Resolve the private access endpoint address for a cluster from outside of a VPC | With this update, you can use Amazon EKS to resolve the private access endpoint of the Kubernetes API server from outside of a VPC. | December 13, 2019 |
| (Beta) Amazon EC2 A1 Amazon EC2 instance nodes | Launch Amazon EC2 A1 Amazon EC2 instance nodes that register with your Amazon EKS cluster. | December 4, 2019 |
| Creating a cluster on AWS Outposts | Amazon EKS now supports creating clusters on AWS Outposts. | December 3, 2019 |
| AWS Fargate on Amazon EKS | Amazon EKS Kubernetes clusters now support running Pods on Fargate. | December 3, 2019 |
| Amazon EKS AWS Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Canada (Central) (ca-central-1) AWS Region. |
November 21, 2019 |
| Managed node groups | Amazon EKS managed node groups automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of nodes (Amazon EC2 instances) for Amazon EKS Kubernetes clusters. | November 18, 2019 |
| Amazon EKS platform version update | New platform versions to address https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/kubernetes-security-announce/jk8polzSUxs/dfq6a-MnCQAJ. | November 6, 2019 |
Kubernetes1.11 is no longer supported on Amazon EKS |
Kubernetes version 1.11 is no longer supported on Amazon EKS. Please update any 1.11 clusters to version 1.12 or higher to avoid service interruption. |
November 4, 2019 |
| Amazon EKS AWS Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the South America (São Paulo) (sa-east-1) AWS Region. |
October 16, 2019 |
| Windows support | Amazon EKS clusters running Kubernetes version 1.14 now support Windows workloads. |
October 7, 2019 |
| Autoscaling | Added a chapter to cover some of the different types of Kubernetes autoscaling that are supported on Amazon EKS clusters. | September 30, 2019 |
| Kubernetes Dashboard update | Updated topic for installing the Kubernetes Dashboard on Amazon EKS clusters to use the beta 2.0 version. |
September 28, 2019 |
| Amazon EFS CSI driver | Added topic for installing the Amazon EFS CSI driver on Kubernetes 1.14 Amazon EKS clusters. |
September 19, 2019 |
| Amazon EC2 Systems Manager parameter for Amazon EKS optimized AMI ID | Added topic for retrieving the Amazon EKS optimized AMI ID using an Amazon EC2 Systems Manager parameter. The parameter eliminates the need for you to look up AMI IDs. | September 18, 2019 |
| Amazon EKS resource tagging | You can manage the tagging of your Amazon EKS clusters. | September 16, 2019 |
| Amazon EBS CSI driver | Added topic for installing the Amazon EBS CSI driver on Kubernetes 1.14 Amazon EKS clusters. |
September 9, 2019 |
New Amazon EKS optimized AMI patched for CVE-2019-9512 and CVE-2019-9514 |
Amazon EKS has updated the Amazon EKS optimized AMI to address CVE-2019-9512 and CVE-2019-9514. |
September 6, 2019 |
Announcing deprecation of Kubernetes1.11 in Amazon EKS |
Amazon EKS discontinued support for Kubernetes version 1.11 on November 4, 2019. |
September 4, 2019 |
Kubernetes version 1.14 |
Added Kubernetes version 1.14 support for new clusters and version upgrades. |
September 3, 2019 |
| IAM roles for service accounts | With IAM roles for service accounts on Amazon EKS clusters, you can associate an IAM role with a Kubernetes service account. With this feature, you no longer need to provide extended permissions to the node IAM role. This way, Pods on that node can call AWS APIs. | September 3, 2019 |
| Amazon EKS AWS Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) (me-south-1) AWS Region. |
August 29, 2019 |
| Amazon EKS platform version update | New platform versions to address CVE-2019-9512 and CVE-2019-9514. |
August 28, 2019 |
| Amazon EKS platform version update | New platform versions to address CVE-2019-11247 and CVE-2019-11249. |
August 5, 2019 |
| Amazon EKS Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) (ap-east-1) AWS Region. |
July 31, 2019 |
Kubernetes1.10 no longer supported on Amazon EKS |
Kubernetes version 1.10 is no longer supported on Amazon EKS. Update any 1.10 clusters to version 1.11 or higher to avoid service interruption. |
July 30, 2019 |
| Added topic on ALB ingress controller | The AWS ALB Ingress Controller for Kubernetes is a controller that causes an ALB to be created when ingress resources are created. | July 11, 2019 |
| New Amazon EKS optimized AMI | Removing unnecessary kubectl binary from AMIs. |
July 3, 2019 |
Kubernetes version 1.13 |
Added Kubernetes version 1.13 support for new clusters and version upgrades. |
June 18, 2019 |
New Amazon EKS optimized AMI patched for AWS-2019-005 |
Amazon EKS has updated the Amazon EKS optimized AMI to address the vulnerabilities that are described in https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2019-005/. | June 17, 2019 |
Announcing discontinuation of support of Kubernetes1.10 in Amazon EKS |
Amazon EKS stopped supporting Kubernetes version 1.10 on July 22, 2019. |
May 21, 2019 |
| Amazon EKS platform version update | New platform version for Kubernetes 1.11 and 1.10 clusters to support custom DNS names in the kubelet certificate and improve etcd performance. |
May 21, 2019 |
AWS CLIget-token command |
The aws eks get-token command was added to the AWS CLI. You no longer need to install the AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes to create client security tokens for cluster API server communication. Upgrade your AWS CLI installation to the latest version to use this new functionality. For more information, see Installing the AWS Command Line Interface in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide. |
May 10, 2019 |
Getting started with eksctl |
This getting started guide describes how you can install all of the required resources to get started with Amazon EKS using eksctl. This is a simple command line utility for creating and managing Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS. |
May 10, 2019 |
| Amazon EKS platform version update | New platform version for Kubernetes 1.12 clusters to support custom DNS names in the kubelet certificate and improve etcd performance. This fixes a bug that caused node kubelet daemons to request a new certificate every few seconds. |
May 8, 2019 |
| Prometheus tutorial | Added topic for deploying Prometheus to your Amazon EKS cluster. | April 5, 2019 |
| Amazon EKS control plane logging | With this update, you can get audit and diagnostic logs directly from the Amazon EKS control pane. You can use these CloudWatch logs in your account as reference for securing and running clusters. | April 4, 2019 |
Kubernetes version 1.12 |
Added Kubernetes version 1.12 support for new clusters and version upgrades. |
March 28, 2019 |
| Added App Mesh getting started guide | Added documentation for getting started with App Mesh and Kubernetes. | March 27, 2019 |
| Amazon EKS API server endpoint private access | Added documentation for disabling public access for your Amazon EKS cluster's Kubernetes API server endpoint. | March 19, 2019 |
| Added topic for installing the Kubernetes Metrics Server | The Kubernetes Metrics Server is an aggregator of resource usage data in your cluster. | March 18, 2019 |
| Added list of related open source projects | These open source projects extend the functionality of Kubernetes clusters running on AWS, including clusters that are managed by Amazon EKS. | March 15, 2019 |
| Added topic for installing Helm locally | The helm package manager for Kubernetes helps you install and manage applications on your Kubernetes cluster. This topic shows how to install and run the helm and tiller binaries locally. That way, you can install and manage charts using the Helm CLI on your local system. |
March 11, 2019 |
| Amazon EKS platform version update | New platform version that updates Amazon EKS Kubernetes 1.11 clusters to patch level 1.11.8 to address https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/kubernetes-security-announcement-v1-11-8-1-12-6-1-13-4-released-to-address-medium-severity-cve-2019-1002100/5147. |
March 8, 2019 |
| Increased cluster limit | Amazon EKS has increased the number of clusters that you can create in an AWS Region from 3 to 50. | February 13, 2019 |
| Amazon EKS AWS Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Europe (London) (eu-west-2), Europe (Paris) (eu-west-3), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) AWS Regions. |
February 13, 2019 |
New Amazon EKS optimized AMI patched for ALAS-2019-1156 |
Amazon EKS has updated the Amazon EKS optimized AMI to address the vulnerability that's described in https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2019-1156.html. | February 11, 2019 |
New Amazon EKS optimized AMI patched for ALAS2-2019-1141 |
Amazon EKS has updated the Amazon EKS optimized AMI to address the CVEs that are referenced in https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2019-1141.html. | January 9, 2019 |
| Amazon EKS AWS Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2) AWS Region. |
January 9, 2019 |
| Amazon EKS region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the following additional AWS Regions: Europe (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1), Asia Pacific (Singapore) (ap-southeast-1), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) (ap-southeast-2). |
December 19, 2018 |
| Amazon EKS cluster updates | Added documentation for Amazon EKS cluster Kubernetes version updates and node replacement. | December 12, 2018 |
| Amazon EKS AWS Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Europe (Stockholm) (eu-north-1) AWS Region. |
December 11, 2018 |
| Amazon EKS platform version update | New platform version updating Kubernetes to patch level 1.10.11 to address http://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2018-020/. |
December 4, 2018 |
Added version 1.0.0 support for the ALB ingress controller |
The ALB ingress controller releases version 1.0.0 with formal support from AWS. |
November 20, 2018 |
| Added support for CNI network configuration | The Amazon VPC CNI plugin for Kubernetes version 1.2.1 now supports custom network configuration for secondary Pod network interfaces. |
October 16, 2018 |
Added support for MutatingAdmissionWebhook and ValidatingAdmissionWebhook |
Amazon EKS platform version 1.10-eks.2 now supports MutatingAdmissionWebhook and ValidatingAdmissionWebhook admission controllers. |
October 10, 2018 |
| Added partner AMI information | Canonical has partnered with Amazon EKS to create node AMIs that you can use in your clusters. | October 3, 2018 |
Added instructions for AWS CLIupdate-kubeconfig command |
Amazon EKS has added the update-kubeconfig to the AWS CLI to simplify the process of creating a kubeconfig file for accessing your cluster. |
September 21, 2018 |
| New Amazon EKS optimized AMIs | Amazon EKS has updated the Amazon EKS optimized AMIs (with and without GPU support) to provide various security fixes and AMI optimizations. | September 13, 2018 |
| Amazon EKS AWS Region expansion | Amazon EKS is now available in the Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1) Region. |
September 5, 2018 |
| Amazon EKS platform version update | New platform version with support for Kubernetes aggregation layer and the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler(HPA). | August 31, 2018 |
| New Amazon EKS optimized AMIs and GPU support | Amazon EKS has updated the Amazon EKS optimized AMI to use a new AWS CloudFormation node template and bootstrap script. In addition, a new Amazon EKS optimized AMI with GPU support is available. | August 22, 2018 |
New Amazon EKS optimized AMI patched for ALAS2-2018-1058 |
Amazon EKS has updated the Amazon EKS optimized AMI to address the CVEs that are referenced in https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2018-1058.html. | August 14, 2018 |
| Amazon EKS optimized AMI build scripts | Amazon EKS has open-sourced the build scripts that are used to build the Amazon EKS optimized AMI. These build scripts are now available on GitHub. | July 10, 2018 |
| Amazon EKS initial release | Initial documentation for service launch | June 5, 2018 |