Amazon EKS changelog
63 announcements since January 2025 · 5 GA · 1 preview · 1 price change · 1 Region expansion
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October 20264
Shows certificate authority rotation status and expiring CAs across clusters, accounts and Regions
Supports Kubernetes Gateway API with Gateway and HTTPRoute resources, HTTP and gRPC routing
Kubernetes version 1.37 supported, including in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
NodeClass advancedCompute field sets kubelet, kernel sysctl and hugepages configuration
September 20263
August 20264
July 20265
HPA sync concurrency raised up to 40 times the Kubernetes default
Supports AWS PrivateLink for the cluster OIDC discovery and JWKS endpoint
Supports ARC zonal shift and autoshift at no additional cost or configuration
GPU management fees cut 35% for G-series, 60% for P-series and Trainium from July 1, 2026Price
Kubernetes version rollback to previous minor version within 7 days of an upgrade
June 20265
Control plane egress for webhooks and OIDC lookups can be routed through your own VPC
Local clusters on Outposts racks that boot from EC2 instance store, with updated architectureGA
Argo CD, ACK and kro logs can be delivered through CloudWatch Vended Logs
Supports Kubernetes version 1.36 for new clusters and upgrades, including GovCloud (US) RegionsGA
May 20264
April 20265
One-click cluster access from the console through CloudShell with kubectl pre-configured
Automates networking between cluster VPC and pods on hybrid nodes, no extra charge
Seven more IAM condition keys for cluster creation and configuration APIs, usable in SCPsGA
Support EC2 Auto Scaling warm pools of pre-initialized instances for faster scale-out
OpenTelemetry metrics with up to 150 labels per metric, queryable with PromQLPreview